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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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Every man is grave alone.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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For all symbols are fluxional all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
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It is not an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
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