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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
US essayist & poet [more author details]

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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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