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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
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Noblesse oblige or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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A friend is the hope of the heart.
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men in their religion in their education in their pursuits their modes of living their association in their property in their speculative views.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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