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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
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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Calmness is always godlike.
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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
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