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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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
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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion one, fame, the other, desert one, feats, the other, humility one, lucre, the other, love one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.
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