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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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