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For he that feeds men serveth few He serves all who dares be true.
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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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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To Be is to live with God.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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