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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
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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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.
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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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I think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles but they darenot trust their presentiments.
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We are the prisoners of ideas.
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A man of no conversation should smoke.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
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