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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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