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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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The surest poison is time.
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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