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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
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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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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There are some men above grief and some men below it.
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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome alwayswe are invited to work.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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Every time you wink the stars move.
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Look out! Behind you!
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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