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Ralph Waldo Emerson
United States
25 May 1803 // 27 Apr 1882
Author / Poet/ Philosopher
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On Experience:
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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On Selfishness:
The pest of society is egotists
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On Friend:
The ornaments of a home are the friends who frequent it
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On Wealth:
The first wealth is health
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On Eyes:
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul
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On Friendship:
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust
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On Eloquence:
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
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On Faith:
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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On Conversation:
The best of life is conversation
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On Thought:
The ancestor of every action is a thought
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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."
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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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