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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtues
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
3.9 · 38 votes · 186 reads
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Society
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
5.0 · 38 votes · 181 reads
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Various
We never touch but at points.
4.3 · 39 votes · 114 reads
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Feelings
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
5.0 · 7 votes · 192 reads
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Various
We walk alone in the world.
4.2 · 26 votes · 150 reads
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Society
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
4.5 · 39 votes · 134 reads
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Virtues
What a new face courage puts on everything!
4.0 · 19 votes · 155 reads
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Virtues
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
4.0 · 29 votes · 113 reads
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Government and Politics
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
3.2 · 10 votes · 173 reads
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Virtues
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it
5.0 · 46 votes · 119 reads
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Virtues
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.
3.3 · 54 votes · 143 reads
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Thought and Reason
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
3.9 · 24 votes · 138 reads
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Virtues
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
3.3 · 54 votes · 44 reads
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Various
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
4.4 · 34 votes · 108 reads
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Feelings
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
3.9 · 33 votes · 41 reads
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Government and Politics
Wherever there is power there is age.
3.5 · 15 votes · 94 reads
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Various
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
4.2 · 64 votes · 187 reads
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Nature
Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
4.1 · 12 votes · 92 reads
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Various
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
3.8 · 37 votes · 178 reads
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Nature
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
3.2 · 55 votes · 78 reads
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Virtues
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
3.8 · 57 votes · 34 reads
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Various
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
3.9 · 58 votes · 12 reads
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Virtues
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
4.7 · 13 votes · 182 reads
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Thought and Reason
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
4.7 · 26 votes · 36 reads
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Society
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
4.4 · 61 votes · 129 reads
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Society
Work is victory.
3.3 · 17 votes · 172 reads
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Virtues
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
3.0 · 56 votes · 82 reads
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Time
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
4.2 · 21 votes · 136 reads
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