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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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We may be partial, but Fate is not.
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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Every man is a new method.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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All the devils respect virtue.
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