Ralph Waldo Emerson

(274 votes)   Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(273 votes)   Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(266 votes)   So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(265 votes)   There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(257 votes)   A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(207 votes)   Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(181 votes)   We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(175 votes)   Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(167 votes)   I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(162 votes)   The people are to be taken in small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(156 votes)   Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(156 votes)   My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(156 votes)   Self-trust is the first secret to success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(153 votes)   Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(152 votes)   Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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