Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“God enters by a private door into every individual.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“All diseases run into one, old age.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson