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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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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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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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All life is an experiment.
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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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