Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet. he was born on 25 may, 1803 at Boston in united-state. In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson became the most widely known man of letters in America, Establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer and an advocate of social reforms who was nevertheless suspicious of reform and reformer. he was died on 27 April 1882 at Concord United-states. He was a great person.
185 Quotes Of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
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The reality is more excellent than the report.
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Violence is not power, but the absence of power.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
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Go put your creed into the deed, nor speak with double tongue.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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Don’t choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
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Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
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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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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
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All mankind love a lover.
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Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
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Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
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There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
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The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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The first wealth is health.
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Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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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.
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The least defect of self-possession vitiates, in my judgment, the entire relation.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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We must be our own before we can be another’s.
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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
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Love and you shall be loved.
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Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.
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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Self-command is the main elegance.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
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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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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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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 astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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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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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
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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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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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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.
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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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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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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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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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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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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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We become what we think about all day long.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
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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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That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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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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Our distrust is very expensive.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
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Thought is the seed of action.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Everything good is on the highway.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
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Children are all foreigners.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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This world belongs to the energetic.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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I do not wish more external goods, — neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons. The gain is apparent; the tax is certain.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
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Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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Skill to do comes of doing.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Life is a progress, and not a station.
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To fill the hour – that is happiness.
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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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Friendship is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own.
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Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
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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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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Imitation is suicide.
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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
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Life is our dictionary.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
