Every artist was first an amateur.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEvery artist was first an amateur.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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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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The years teach much the days never know.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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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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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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