If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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What terrible questions we are learning to ask The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is the want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
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I like man, but not men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist . . .
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