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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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Life is our dictionary.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25th, 1803

Died: April 27th, 1882

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