Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Money often costs too much.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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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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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'