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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25th, 1803

Died: April 27th, 1882

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