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  2. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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    Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  3. Bessie Anderson Stanley - Wikipedia

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    This line is inscribed on Stanley's gravestone (source, 2004 photography found at chebucto.ns.ca subdirectory Philosophy subdirectory Sui-Generis sub directory Emerson file monument dot jpg; The poem was in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations in the 1930s or 1940s but was removed in the 1960s. [5] It was again included in the seventeenth edition.

  4. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (September 1974) 52. “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” ... Success quotes from famous people. 82. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

  6. The Best Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Uplift You Out ...

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    Inspirational Quotes About Success ... — Ralph Waldo EmersonSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill

  7. The Conduct of Life - Wikipedia

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    Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...

  8. The Over-Soul - Wikipedia

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    "The Over-Soul" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson first published in 1841. With the human soul as its overriding subject, several general themes are treated: (1) the existence and nature of the human soul; (2) the relationship between the soul and the personal ego; (3) the relationship of one human soul to another; and (4) the relationship of the human soul to God.

  9. Divinity School Address - Wikipedia

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    Emerson presented his speech to a group of graduating divinity students, their professors, and local ministers on July 15, 1838, at Divinity Hall. [1] At the time of Emerson's speech, Harvard was the center of academic Unitarian thought. In this address, Emerson made comments that were radical for their time.