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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
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