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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
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