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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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