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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
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That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
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The silent organ loudest chants
The master's requiem.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
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One is glad of eternity, when we find so much to learn.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest...
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Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
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'Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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