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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 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
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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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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