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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
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