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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of 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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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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It's a luxury to be understood.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
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Humility is the secret of the wise.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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Nothing is quite beautiful alone nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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