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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
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a good reader makes a good book
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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