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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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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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America is a country of young men.
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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