Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."	Beauty
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."	Children
"A child is a curly dimpled lunatic."	Children
"All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world."	Love, Confidence
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."	Love, Conformity
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."	Courage
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."	Courage
"The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them."	Food
"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."	Food
"God enters by a private door into each individual."	God
"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."	Government
"Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities."	Health
"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley."	Comedy, Help
"History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement."	Economics, History
"If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach."	Leadership
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."	Miscellaneous
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."	Quotations
"Nature hates calculators."	Nature
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"	Nature
"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."	Quotations
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Ability	Acceptance	Accomplishment
Achievement	Adversity	Age
Ambition	America	Anger
Anti-God	Anti-Religion	Art
Attitude	Beauty	Beginnings
Books	Change	Character
Children	Comedy	Confidence
Conformity	Courage	Criticism
Darkness	Death	Decision-Making
Desires	Destiny	Difficulty
Doubt	Dreams	Duty
Economics	Education	Equality
Evil	Excellence	Experience
Failure	Faith	Fate
Fear	Food	Forgiveness
Freedom	Friends	Generosity
Genius	Glory	Goals
God	Good	Government
Greatness	Happiness	Health
Help	History	Honesty
Honor	Hope	Humor
Ideas	Imagination	Intelligence
Intentions	Joy	Justice
Knowledge	Laughter	Law
Leadership	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Memory	Men
Military	Miscellaneous	Mistakes
Monarchy	Money	Music
Nature	Patience	Patriotism
Peace	Poetry	Politics
Power	Quitting	Quotations
Reading	Religion	Responsibility
Risk	School	Science
Sin	Sleep	Sleeping
Strength	Stupidity	Success
Talent	Teaching	Thanksgiving
Time	Truth	Violence
Virtue	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying
Writing