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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon flat and weak negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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