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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
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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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows.
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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion one, fame, the other, desert one, feats, the other, humility one, lucre, the other, love one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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Necessity does everything well.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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