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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Without electricity, the air would rot.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25th, 1803

Died: April 27th, 1882

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