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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
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