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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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