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The ocean is a large drop a drop is a small ocean.
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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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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