Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.