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Chance Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit;…
- He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.…
- Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
- There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The…
- People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
- When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
- Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
- There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is…
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