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“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”

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“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

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“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

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“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

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“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”

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“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something”

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

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“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

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