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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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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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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 word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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