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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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The population of the world is a conditional population these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live there shall be a better, please God.
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Life is a series of surprises.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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