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Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
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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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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



Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

Don΄t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

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