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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows.
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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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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