Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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