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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feelings
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
4.3 · 7 votes · 134 reads
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Nature
Live, let live, and help live
4.6 · 35 votes · 115 reads
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Feelings
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
4.9 · 5 votes · 14 reads
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Virtues
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
4.2 · 24 votes · 28 reads
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Various
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
3.0 · 18 votes · 151 reads
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Various
Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love -now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are
4.1 · 50 votes · 30 reads
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Various
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
5.0 · 5 votes · 77 reads
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Society
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
4.2 · 28 votes · 3 reads
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Art and Culture
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Marcus Tulius Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Marcus Tulius Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote thes
3.3 · 16 votes · 170 reads
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Various
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
4.6 · 60 votes · 72 reads
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Society
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused
3.2 · 22 votes · 40 reads
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Various
Men are respectable only as they respect.
3.0 · 16 votes · 103 reads
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Art and Culture
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
3.9 · 40 votes · 82 reads
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Various
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
3.5 · 61 votes · 193 reads
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Nature
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
4.3 · 35 votes · 84 reads
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Society
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
4.0 · 48 votes · 144 reads
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Society
Money often costs too much.
3.0 · 40 votes · 104 reads
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Society
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
4.7 · 47 votes · 64 reads
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Art and Culture
Music causes us to think eloquently.
4.2 · 49 votes · 172 reads
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Government and Politics
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
3.2 · 52 votes · 44 reads
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Time
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
3.4 · 17 votes · 174 reads
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Time
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
4.4 · 64 votes · 123 reads
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Art and Culture
Never read any book that is not a year old.
3.7 · 25 votes · 200 reads
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Thought and Reason
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
3.2 · 27 votes · 158 reads
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Virtues
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
4.8 · 51 votes · 9 reads
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Various
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
4.7 · 29 votes · 21 reads
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Virtues
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
3.9 · 7 votes · 180 reads
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Government and Politics
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
3.8 · 57 votes · 73 reads
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Various
No man can help another without helping himself.
3.0 · 57 votes · 102 reads
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Art and Culture
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
3.8 · 22 votes · 175 reads
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Art and Culture
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
4.2 · 49 votes · 4 reads
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Thought and Reason
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
4.4 · 28 votes · 191 reads
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Various
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
3.4 · 40 votes · 135 reads
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Virtues
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
4.7 · 60 votes · 15 reads
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Virtues
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
4.5 · 48 votes · 33 reads
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Virtues
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
5.0 · 25 votes · 159 reads
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Society
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
3.9 · 48 votes · 16 reads
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Various
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
4.9 · 49 votes · 33 reads
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Feelings
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
4.2 · 5 votes · 35 reads
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Virtues
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
4.8 · 56 votes · 142 reads
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