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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
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“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
― Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
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