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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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Intellect is a fire rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.
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