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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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