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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, so hot? my little Sir.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
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