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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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For flowers that bloom about our feet For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet For song of bird, and hum of bee For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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