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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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 wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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The moral equalizes all enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.
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Every advantage has its tax.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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