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| No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What we call results are beginnings. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Knowledge exists to be imparted. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 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. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Love is the essence of God. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A good intention clothes itself with power. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world. |
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| The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs. |
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| I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The education of the will is the object of our existence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every man I meet is in some way my superior. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Hitch your wagon to a star. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Always do what you are afraid to do. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| To be great is to be misunderstood. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Fame is proof that people are gullible. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. |
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| All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. |
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| We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. |
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| In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity. |
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| The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. |
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| Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. |
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| The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. |
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| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. |
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| Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. |
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| Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. |
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| Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. |
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| If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them. |
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| You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. |
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| Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. |
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| If 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. |
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| A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. |
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| Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. |
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| The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one. |
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| What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In the woods is perpetual youth. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. |
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| Adopt the pace of nature. |
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| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. |
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| The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
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| I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. |
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| Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. |
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| Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. |
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| Children are all foreigners. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Every sweet has its sour every evil its good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Give all to love obey thy heart. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. |
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| There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The world belongs to the energetic. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The only gift is a portion of thyself. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The ancestor of every action is a thought. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Tis the good reader that makes the good book. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We do what we must, and call it by the best names. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| When you strike at a king, you must kill him. |
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| Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. |
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