Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Acceptance
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
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The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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