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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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We are disgusted by gossip yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men and you undo them.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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