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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
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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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
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