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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
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A gentleman makes no noise a lady is serene.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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I see my trees repair their boughs.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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Character wants room must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.
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