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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man is hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says has an enhanced value.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every revolution was thought first in one man's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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