Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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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.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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There is always safety in valor.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!