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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
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