“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground-breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
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“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
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“There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.”
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“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
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“Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.”
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“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.”
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“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
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“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”
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“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
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“Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
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“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”
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“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
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“Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.”
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
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“Men are what their mothers made them.”
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