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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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We can only obey our own polarity.
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Humility is the secret of the wise.
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
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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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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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I am become a transparent eyeball.
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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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