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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Treat your friend as a spectacle.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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The religions we call false were once true.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward in talent from without inward.
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