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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
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Frankness invites frankness.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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