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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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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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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.
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