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American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
– 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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle
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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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When it is darkest, men see the stars.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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One man’s justice is another’s Injustice. One man’s beauty another’s ugliness. One man’s wisdom another’s folly.
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Good men must not obey the laws too much.
– 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.
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Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Fame is proof that people are gullible.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As soon as there is life, there is danger.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All is riddle and the key to a riddle, is another riddle.
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All great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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