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"53 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 25 May 1803. Died: 27 April 1882 | Philosopher | Poet |

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

World Great Constant You
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Behind Comparison Front Inside
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Adopt Her Nature Pace
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Angry Every Give Mind
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Any Defeats Fear More
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Conspires Decision Happen Make
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Achieved Enthusiasm Ever Great
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Every burned book enlightens the world.

Book Burned Enlightens Every
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Choirs Friends Growth His
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Give Only Poor Refuse
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Balanced Easy Find Gifts
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Change Enjoyed Lose Used
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Also Character Confession Opinion
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Europe Listened Long Muses
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The years teach much which the days never know.

Days Know Much Never
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All mankind love a lover.
Love Lover Mankind
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Friend Only Way
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Above Aim Hit Mark
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Depth Length Life
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Better Experiment Experiments Life
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Another Beautiful Help Helping
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People only see what they are prepared to see.

Only People Prepared See
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Beautiful Carry Find Must
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Character Dreams Judge Natural
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Hear Loudly Saying Speaks
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Gift Greatest GreatestGift Portion
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God enters by a private door into every individual.

Door Every God Individual
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friend Masterpiece May Nature
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Another Key Lessons Life
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Assertion Beauty Flowers Proud
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Best Day Every EveryDay
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Always Getting Live Living
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Child Get Glad Him
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make Most You Yourself
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Because Betrayed Courage Every
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Brave Braver Five He
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Built Civilized Coach Feet
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The earth laughs in flowers.

Earth Flowers Laughs
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Afford Blessings Friends Old
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Anything Elegant Few Self
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The first wealth is health.
First Health Wealth
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Cannot How Kindness Know
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Every EveryTime Fail Failing
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Hate Know Me Quotations
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Debt Does Imagination Know
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Love Men Science Seed
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We must be our own before we can be another's.

Another Before Must Our
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Body Evening His Legs
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

About AllDay Day He
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Beauty without expression is boring.

Beauty Boring Expression Without
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes & Sayings