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America is a country of young men.
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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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Education should be as broad as man.
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Conversation is a game of circles.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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