A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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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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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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