Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe 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.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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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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The years teach much the days never know.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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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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