Continued Insights from Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us"

"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"

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you"

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark"

"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"

"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door"

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself"

"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste"

"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"

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching"

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind"

"We must be our own before we can be another's"

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods"

"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons"

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

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered"

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great"

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves"

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect"

"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"

"Nothing external to you has any power over you"

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think"

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing"

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom"

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change"

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist"

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"

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