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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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