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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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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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For he that feeds men serveth few He serves all who dares be true.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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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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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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