Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of human society.
[Truth]
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
[Spirituality]
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
[Hypocrisy]
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Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. - They speak all languages; wait for no introduction; ask no leave of age or rank; respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. - What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
[Fear]
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
[Nature]
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
[Happiness]
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
[Nature]
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Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
[Anger]
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For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.
[Forgiveness]
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For it is not meters, but a meter-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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