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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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