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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Selftrust is the essence of heroism.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Speech is power : speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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Teach me your mood, O patient stars! Who climb each night the ancient sky, Leaving on space no shade, no scars, No trace of age, no fear to die.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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The basis of good manners is selfreliance.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or status, or songs.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
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