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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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Noblesse oblige or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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