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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.

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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Another
Best
Self

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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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I unsettle all things.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Earth endures Stars abide.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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