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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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