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| Children are all foreigners. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| Give all to love; obey thy heart. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The ancestor of every action is a thought. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The less government we have the better. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The people are to be taken in very small doses. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| We become what we think about all day long. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| I hate quotations. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| The world belongs to the energetic. |
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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