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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. "
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" Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. "
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" Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? "
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" It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' "
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" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "
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" I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom. "
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" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "
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" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. "
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" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "
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" Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. "
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" An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. "
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" To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. "
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" People only see what they are prepared to see. "
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" Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. "
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" Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? "
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" We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. "
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" Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. "
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" Every artist was first an amateur. "
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" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "
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" People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. "
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" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "
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" Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. "
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" There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. "
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" The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. "
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Secret
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" All mankind love a lover. "
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Mankind
" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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Every Man
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" Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. "
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" Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. "
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" What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. "
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