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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Almost every man we meet requires some civility requires to be humored - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
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