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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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Love should make joy but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.
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