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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions go not backward.

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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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There is always safety in valor.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson