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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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Nature is saturated with Deity.
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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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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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
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