Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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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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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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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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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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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 best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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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.