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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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