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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
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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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
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