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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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 height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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We walk alone in the world.
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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