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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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
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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
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Earth endures Stars abide.
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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