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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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