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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, so hot? my little Sir.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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The student is to read history actively and not passively to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.
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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
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It is one soul which animates all men.
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Character teaches above our wills.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?
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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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