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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are what their mothers made them.

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson