Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, an open and noble temper.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To fill the hour that is happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Speech is power speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For every minute you are angry you loose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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