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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature hates calculators.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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All mankind love a lover.

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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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Children are all foreigners.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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What is a farm but a mute gospel?

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What you are comes to you.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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