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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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