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All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
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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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful
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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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