Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Friendship One Liner Person Sincere
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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Accomplishment Alone Command Excellence Except Listen Self Respect Whisperm Hear
Beauty without expression is boring.
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Beautiful Bore Expression Happiness One Liner
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Atatch Clothes Dog Dress Fashion Humour Reason Respect
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Book Encounter Man Rare Reading
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Adopt Nature One Liner Patience Secret Travel
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Fiction One Liner Reality Reveal
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Hope Inspirational Life Mud Sing
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Courtesy Enough Life One Liner Respect
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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DAngry Deliverance Fear God Prayer Safety Wisdom Wise
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

DAngry Deliverance Fear God Prayer Safety Wisdom Wise
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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Engine Enthusiasm Inspirational Path Patience Power Success
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Integrity Mind One Liner Scared
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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Curosity Endurance Humour Inspirational Nature Pain People Qualification Shoes Silence Walk
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Confidence One Liner Peace Yourself
You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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Be Yourself Constant Inspirational One Liner
Life is a journey, not a destination.
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Destination Journey Life One Liner
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Cause Life Shadow Stand Sun Sunshine
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Courage Inspirational Lead Leaving Life Path
The years teach much the days never know.
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Life One Liner Reality Teaching
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Live Self Love Yourself
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Envy Ignorance Imitation One Liner Suicide
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Book Freedom Leaving Peace
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Acquire Healing One Liner Overcome Strength
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Dimension Ideas Inspirational Mind Return
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Discover Funny Plant Viture Weed
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Confidence Iron String Trust Vibrate

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