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Our health is our sound relation to external objects our sympathy with external being.
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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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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