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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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 Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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