QUOTES by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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The soul is no traveler; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still.
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He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things.
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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.
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A foreign country is a point of comparison, where from to judge his own.
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I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged.
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The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—’Come out unto us.’ But keep thy state; come not into their confusion.
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The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, — “always do what you are afraid to do”
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism. […] It speaks the truth, and it is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations, and scornful of being scorned.
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On Henry David Thoreau: He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.
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