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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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~ Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. ~
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~ When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. ~
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~ Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. ~
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~ Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide. ~
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~ Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. ~
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~ Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know ~
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~ In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. ~
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~ Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~
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~ Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. ~
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~ Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. ~
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~ A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~
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~ To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. ~
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~ Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. ~
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~ The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses. ~
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~ Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. ~
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