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• To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Life is a progress, and not a station. Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Men are conservative after dinner. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (on Abraham Lincoln)...
• Beware when the great God lets loose a genius upon the world.
  Then all things are at risk. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Our best thoughts come from others. Ralph Waldo Emerso