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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
Waldo Emerson
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
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The universe is the externalization of the soul.
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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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