QUOTES by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
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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.
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Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
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Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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I have been writing and speaking what were once called novelties, for twenty five or thirty years, & have not now one disciple. Why? Not that what I said was not true; not that it has not found intelligent receivers but because it did not go from any wish in me to bring men to me, but to themselves.
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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.
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We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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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.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.
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As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
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