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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

from "Self-Reliance"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Often paraphrased as: "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-command is the main elegance.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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