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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart.
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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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Labor is God's education.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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The beautiful is never plentiful.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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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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