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We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment,
not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- 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
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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