Continued Insights from Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We acquire the strength we have overcome"

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports"

"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay"

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them"

"It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself"

"It is not length of life, but depth of life"

"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all"

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances"

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs"

"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed"

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know"

"Hitch your wagon to a star"

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

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man"

"Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never"

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world"

"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events"

"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies"

"Good men must not obey the laws too well"

"God screens us evermore from premature ideas"

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world"

"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence"

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff"

"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant"

"Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France"

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action"

"Nature hates calculators"

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them"

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit"

"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one"

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting"

"Always do what you are afraid to do"

"To be great is to be misunderstood"

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it"

"We are always getting ready to live but never living"

"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases"

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late"

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

"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting"

"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood"

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it"

"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom"

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself"

"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye"

"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere"

"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount"

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing"

"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet"

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