If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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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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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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