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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
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In dreams we are true poets we create the persons of the drama we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours and we listen with surprise to what they say.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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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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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
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It is time to be old To take in sail.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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