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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
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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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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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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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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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