Hope quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out; and such as are out wish to get in."
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."
"The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities."
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."