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" If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will
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" Always do what you are afraid to do. "
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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "
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" In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. "
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" It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. "
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" Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. "
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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 always safety in valor. "
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" Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. "
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" Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. "
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Spirit
" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "
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" Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. "
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" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "
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Next
Own
" In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. "
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" Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. "
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You
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" With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. "
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Life
Future
" Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. "
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Saying
" Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. "
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Made
Hidden
" We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. "
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Much
" Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. "
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Positive
Someone
" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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Man
" The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. "
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World
" Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. "
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