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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
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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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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
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