Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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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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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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