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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
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