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Ralph Waldo Emerson
United States
25 May 1803 // 27 Apr 1882
Author / Poet/ Philosopher
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On Book:
Some books leave us free and some books make us free
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On Ability:
Skill to do comes of doing
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On Science:
Science does not know its debt to imagination
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On Opinion:
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character
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On Perception:
People only see what they are prepared to see
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On Literature:
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad
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On Patience:
Patience and fortitude conquer all things
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On Failure:
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail
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On Example:
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds
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On Success:
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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