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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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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R. W. Emerson
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
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Every word was once a poem.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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