Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Value is what you get.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
