Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."	Learning
"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."	God, Character
"O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas."	Fear
"The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."	Ideas
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."	Success, Law
"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."	Time
"Look out! Behind you!"	God, Stupidity
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."	Quotations
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	America
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	Quotations
"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends."	Thanksgiving
"For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!"	Thanksgiving
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."	Quotations
"We acquire the strength we have overcome."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."	Art
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."	Art
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."	Anti-God, Attitude
"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures."	Anti-God, Attitude
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