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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
Waldo Emerson
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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Adult males are what their moms designed them.
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Imitation cannot go above its model.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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The moral equalizes all enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.
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If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
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Earth endures Stars abide.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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