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The key to every man is his thought.
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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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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What we call results are beginnings.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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There is a crack in everything God has made
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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
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