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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
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