Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Str… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henry David Thoreau Michel de Montaigne Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Carlyle

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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