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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
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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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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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You think me the child of circumstance I make my circumstance.
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