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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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Adult males are what their moms designed them.
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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