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| View | 651 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. |
| View | 652 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. |
| View | 653 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. |
| View | 654 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. |
| View | 655 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them. |
| View | 656 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. |
| View | 657 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. |
| View | 658 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. |
| View | 659 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. |
| View | 660 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. |
| View | 661 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one. |
| View | 662 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. |
| View | 663 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | In the woods is perpetual youth. |
| View | 664 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. |
| View | 665 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adopt the pace of nature. |
| View | 666 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius. |
| View | 667 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
| View | 668 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. |
| View | 669 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. |
| View | 670 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. |
| View | 671 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. |
| View | 672 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Children are all foreigners. |
| View | 673 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. |
| View | 674 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
| View | 675 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. |
| View | 676 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. |
| View | 677 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. |
| View | 678 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. |
| View | 679 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air |
| View | 680 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. |
| View | 681 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every sweet has its sour every evil its good. |
| View | 682 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique. |
| View | 683 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Give all to love obey thy heart. |
| View | 684 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. |
| View | 685 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. |
| View | 686 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. |
| View | 687 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. |
| View | 688 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. |
| View | 689 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The world belongs to the energetic. |
| View | 690 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The only gift is a portion of thyself. |
| View | 691 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The ancestor of every action is a thought. |
| View | 692 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. |
| View | 693 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
| View | 694 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. |
| View | 695 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Tis the good reader that makes the good book. |
| View | 696 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | We do what we must, and call it by the best names. |
| View | 697 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | When you strike at a king, you must kill him. |
| View | 698 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. |
| View | 699 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. |
| View | 700 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. |
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