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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
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Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.
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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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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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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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It's a luxury to be understood.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
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