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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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