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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the energetic.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.: 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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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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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We all boil at different degrees.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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