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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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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The pest of society is egotists.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
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We can only obey our own polarity.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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Life is a search after power and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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Men are better than this theology.
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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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