Ralph Waldo Emerson

(411 votes)   Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(396 votes)   Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(360 votes)   The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(347 votes)   The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(338 votes)   Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(336 votes)   In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(329 votes)   We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(325 votes)   Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(322 votes)   We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(314 votes)   Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(312 votes)   A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(312 votes)   All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(311 votes)   By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(306 votes)   Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(306 votes)   We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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