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Character teaches above our wills.

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
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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