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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
Waldo Emerson
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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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