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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
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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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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