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In his heyday, he could take an audience of any size and have them eating out of his hand. He'd just smoke those people, and they'd be waiting in line for him when he got offstage.


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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Hitch your wagon to a star.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited wit...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mys...
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass undergr...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fear always springs from ignorance
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, sh...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of chil...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, cruc...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, c...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will ...
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