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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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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
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