Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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