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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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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Our prayers are prophets.
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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.
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All promise outruns performance.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
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I see my trees repair their boughs.
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