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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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