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A walk needs simple shoes, curiosity, and humor, says Emerson. He points out that people who act are never preachers. He also says fear stops many people, so facing fear can help you grow. He warns that big cities can feel cold and materialistic, urging people to seek genuine connection.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The instinct of the people is right.

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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The people are to be taken in very small doses.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their…

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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although…

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing…

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful…

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,…

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of…

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world…

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct…

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs…

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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry…

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I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me…

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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave…

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people…

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In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers,…

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are…

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent…

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“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be…

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed…

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All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.…

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If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a…

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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