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A man should give us a sense of mass.
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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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions I will seek my own.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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There is a crack in everything God has made
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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
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