Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.