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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
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Our prayers are prophets.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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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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