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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten even so, they have made me.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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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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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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