Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."	Age, Doubt, Mistakes
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."	Dreams, Mistakes, Sleeping
"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."	Art
"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."	Age, Genius, Sin
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."	Adversity, Age, Courage
"If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them."	Acceptance, Faith, Honesty
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."	Character, Excellence, Intelligence
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."	Evil, Men
"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."	Virtue
"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."	Men, Success
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."	Friends, Military, Virtue
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."	Friends
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."	Miscellaneous
"In the woods is perpetual youth."	Age
"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."	Genius, Men, Time
"Adopt the pace of nature."	Nature
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."	Art, Genius, Honesty
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."	Military, War
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. "	Humor, Laughter
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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
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