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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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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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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
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