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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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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Nature is saturated with Deity.
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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
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All history is biography.
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
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People are timid and apologetic they are no longer upright they dare not say I think, I am, but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God to-day.
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