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"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."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, More quotation on Thanksgiving. |
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841, More quotation on Love. |
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"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841. |
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"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849), More quotation on Quotations. |
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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, More quotation on Courage. |
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"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, More quotation on Intelligence. |
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"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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"Children are all foreigners."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, More quotation on Children. |
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"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. |