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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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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits, on his manhood he has gained facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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