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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
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Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
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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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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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Education should be as broad as man.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
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The first wealth is health.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subservessuch as we see in the sexual attraction.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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