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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Heart

"Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Heart

"Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Heart

"If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength, do not be anxious, do not take things too much to heart, go gently, do not work too long or too hard."

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