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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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You can take better care of your secret than another can.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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