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Inspiring Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 2
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"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"
"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door"
"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied"
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world"
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior"
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons"
"Every hero becomes a bore at last"
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold"
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes"
"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us"
"God enters by a private door into every individual"
"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes"
"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults"
"Every burned book enlightens the world"
"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret"
"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact"
"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough"
"Make yourself necessary to somebody"
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams"
"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise"
"Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified"
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly"
"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none"
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else"
"Power and speed be hands and feet"
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen"
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something"
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"
"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well"
"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless"
"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it"
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed"
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