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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
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