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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
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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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
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