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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
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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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
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