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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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History
“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“Your goodness must have some edge to it, —else it is none.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroism
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Circles
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“the ancestor of every action is a thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spiritual Laws
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“A man is a god in ruins.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellect
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art
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