Ralph Waldo Emerson

(98 votes)   We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(97 votes)   As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(97 votes)   Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(97 votes)   That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(96 votes)   If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(96 votes)   Live, let live, and help live

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(96 votes)   This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(95 votes)   A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(95 votes)   God enters by a private door into each individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(95 votes)   Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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(95 votes)   One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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(95 votes)   Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(95 votes)   The true poem is the poet's mind.

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(95 votes)   The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(94 votes)   We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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