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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the...
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea...
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I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love...
Quote #17963
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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Part of the power of Emerson’s individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that...
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept,...
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Customs are more powerful than laws.
Quote #19079
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Quote #18022
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.