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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men and you undo them.
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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream neither is it a disease but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
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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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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
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The student is to read history actively and not passively to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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