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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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