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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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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome alwayswe are invited to work.
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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says Do not flatter your benefactors, but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
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