Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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Money often costs too much.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.