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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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