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We live ruins amid ruins.

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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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves the man is lost.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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