Ralph Waldo Emerson

(107 votes)   Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(107 votes)   Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(107 votes)   Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(107 votes)   Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(106 votes)   Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(106 votes)   Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(106 votes)   Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(105 votes)   Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(105 votes)   Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(105 votes)   How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(105 votes)   Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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(105 votes)   The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(104 votes)   Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(104 votes)   The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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(104 votes)   We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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