Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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When it is darkest, men see the stars.
Work is victory.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Be and not seem.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
EXPECTATION weakens us in the love and service we provide.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
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