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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something»
«If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your own good»
«To think is to act.»
«Never read any book that is not a year old»
«A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants»
«We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history»
«I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.»
«All diseases run into one, old age.»
«Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.»
«The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.»