Being a parent Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.”

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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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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