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Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.



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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

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