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| View | 551 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. |
| View | 552 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. |
| View | 553 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time. |
| View | 554 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. |
| View | 555 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors. |
| View | 556 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. |
| View | 557 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. |
| View | 558 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. |
| View | 559 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. |
| View | 560 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. |
| View | 561 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it. |
| View | 562 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. |
| View | 563 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life is a progress, and not a station. |
| View | 564 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. |
| View | 565 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better. |
| View | 566 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . . |
| View | 567 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. |
| View | 568 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. |
| View | 569 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. |
| View | 570 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes |
| View | 571 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. |
| View | 572 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
| View | 573 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. |
| View | 574 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even. |
| View | 575 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. |
| View | 576 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. |
| View | 577 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. |
| View | 578 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Thought is the seed of action. |
| View | 579 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. |
| View | 580 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. |
| View | 581 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. |
| View | 582 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. |
| View | 583 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. |
| View | 584 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. |
| View | 585 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | When it is darkest, men see the stars. |
| View | 586 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. |
| View | 587 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. |
| View | 588 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves. |
| View | 589 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. |
| View | 590 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. |
| View | 591 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. |
| View | 592 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one... |
| View | 593 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. |
| View | 594 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. |
| View | 595 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs. |
| View | 596 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. |
| View | 597 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. |
| View | 598 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. |
| View | 599 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. |
| View | 600 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Love and you shall be loved. |
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