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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson