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Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. Poet, essayist and transcendentalist (1803-1882)

• My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

• Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.

• Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

• I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.