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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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