Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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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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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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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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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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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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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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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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Life is our dictionary.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.