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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A nation never falls but by suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.'
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson