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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
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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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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