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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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I think no virtue goes with size.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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