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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem the shepherd, his lamb the farmer, corn the miner, a stone the painter, his picture the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
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Every day, the sun and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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