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There is always a best way of doing everything.

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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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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