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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson