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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
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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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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