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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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