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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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