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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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