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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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We can only obey our own polarity.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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