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| Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. |
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| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. |
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| The only way to have a friend is to be one. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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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| To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us. |
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| Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| This world we live in is but thickened light. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| To fill the hour-that is happiness. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Skill to do comes of doing. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A man is related to all nature. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. |
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| Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. |
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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. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. |
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| There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Money often costs too much. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Never read a book that is not a year old. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. |
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| A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. |
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| Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool. |
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| Life is a festival only to the wise. |
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| The less government we have the better. |
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| We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. |
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| The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. |
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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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| Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. |
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| Be and not seem. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Character is what can do without success. |
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| Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What is the hardest thing in the world To think. |
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| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. |
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| The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays) |
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| What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. |
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| The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. |
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| To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. |
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| Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. |
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| They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors. |
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| Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. |
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| The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. |
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| The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. |
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| Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. |
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| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. |
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| Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Life is a progress, and not a station. |
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| Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better. |
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| A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . . |
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| Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. |
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| The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. |
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| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. |
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| What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes |
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| It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. |
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| The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. |
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| A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. |
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| Thought is the seed of action. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. |
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| All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. |
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| All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. |
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| When it is darkest, men see the stars. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. |
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| We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. |
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| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. |
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| If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one... |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
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| Love and you shall be loved. |
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