Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."	Politics
"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."	Quotations
"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."	Risk
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."	Science
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."	Science
"Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree."	Sleep
"He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."	Anti-Religion, Worrying
"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."	Writing
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."	Miscellaneous
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."	Quotations
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."	Miscellaneous
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."	Quotations
"Accept your genius and say what you think."	Anti-Religion, Acceptance
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."	Love, Conformity
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."	Government, Friends
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."	Success, Life
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."	Success
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."	Failure
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."	Anti-God, Books
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Books	Change	Character
Children	Comedy	Confidence
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