Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot their owning is not graceful it seems to be a compromise of their character they seem to steal their own dividends.

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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Self-truth is the essence of heroism.

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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Language is the archives of history.

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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The soul is no traveler the wise man stays at home... Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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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 your first.

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Good bye, proud world I'm going home Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.

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We have more than we use.

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Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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Men are respectable only as they respect.

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The only reward of virtue is virtue.

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