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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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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.
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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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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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