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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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
Waldo Emerson
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole the wise silence the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related the eternal One.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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