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Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Each the herald is who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate.
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
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The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Blessed are those who have no talent!
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
For nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
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I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance. But I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.
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I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson