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A little praise goes a great ways.

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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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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