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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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