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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we 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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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says Do not flatter your benefactors, but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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The best political economy is the care and culture of men for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
