Ralph Waldo Emerson

(305 votes)   The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(303 votes)   Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(299 votes)   A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(298 votes)   Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(295 votes)   At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(294 votes)   Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(293 votes)   It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(283 votes)   Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(283 votes)   No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(282 votes)   Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(281 votes)   Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(277 votes)   Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(276 votes)   'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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(275 votes)   All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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(275 votes)   I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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