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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
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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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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