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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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