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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also as the green grass.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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The highest end of government is the culture of men.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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