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Our prayers are prophets.
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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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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Life is a series of surprises.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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