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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Circles
“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“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
“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
,
Self-Reliance
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“Your goodness must have some edge to it, —else it is none.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-Reliance
“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
“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
“the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“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
“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“Fear is an instructer of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“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
“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
“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
“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellect
“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
“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
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Self-Reliance
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Self-Reliance
“all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Compensation
“For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Compensation
“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
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
,
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
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Self-Reliance
“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
,
Self-Reliance
“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
,
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
,
Self-Reliance
“Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Compensation
“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Nature
“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
“Love, and you shall be loved.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compensation
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Self-Reliance
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
History
“A man is a god in ruins.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellect
“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
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friendship
“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Friendship
“The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. The harm of the improved machinery may compensate its good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Self-Reliance
“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
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Nature
“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
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The American Scholar
“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
,
Self-Reliance
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Heroism
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