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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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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
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