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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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