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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
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