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Discussion in 'Conversations Between White Women and Black Men' started by hntr18, Dec 18, 2009.

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    hntr18 Well-Known Member

    "A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women." Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold"
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    hntr18 Well-Known Member

    "Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting." Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    hntr18 Well-Known Member

    "The student is to read history actively not passively."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    hntr18 Well-Known Member

    "Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Believe what you set your heart upon for it surely shall be yours."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    For each new morning with its light,
    For rest and shelter of the night,
    For health and food, for love and friends,
    For everything Thy goodness sends."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "The never-ending task of self improvement."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    hntr18 Well-Known Member

    "Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
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    "To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone."
    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
     

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