I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe acquire the strength we have overcome.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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