Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

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

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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