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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
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
Waldo Emerson
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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