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We find in life exactly what we put into it
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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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
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The world is nothing, the man is all in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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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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I see my trees repair their boughs.
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My life should be unique it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
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