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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for read more

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Time Quotes,
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; read more

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Opinion Quotes,
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Genius Quotes,
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Machine Quotes,
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