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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
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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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
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