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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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The first wealth is health.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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