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bb5b334	What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
d48d212	Always do what you are afraid to do.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
a8eae35	Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.	inspirational life	Ralph Waldo Emerson
26246c4	It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.	essay inspirational lecture nonfiction philosophy self-reliance social-commentary transcendentalism	Ralph Waldo Emerson
0b9eadb	Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.	courage inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
5bb3946	Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.	advice-for-daily-living inspirational live-in-the-moment optimism wonder	Ralph Waldo Emerson
4f04dce	Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.	be-yourself inspirational self-improvement	Ralph Waldo Emerson
e4b1059	Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
9a9b3dc	Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.	causality causation cause-and-effect chance darwinism inspirational kalam-cosmological-argument luck naturalism necessity serendipity	Ralph Waldo Emerson
572d85a	A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.	brave inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
4dbe230	Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.	contradiction correcting correction criticism inspirational opinions paranoia	Ralph Waldo Emerson
7d72880	You become what you think about all day long.	inspirational obsession	Ralph Waldo Emerson
24e5f41	Envy is ignorance	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
1176ba1	Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
ae5fb5b	There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what t..	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
ee70f5a	That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
cdbce2c	None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.	inspirational self-determination self-expression	Ralph Waldo Emerson
5147167	Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.	inspirational life	Ralph Waldo Emerson
9862f8b	Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
e2567af	It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
216d723	Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.	fear inspirational self-confidence	Ralph Waldo Emerson
3e706f8	God will not have his work made manifest by cowards	individualism inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
c4924fd	Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
4295e2e	The reward of a thing well done is having done it.	inspirational	Ralph Waldo Emerson
f3f4998	Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,	george-washington james-watt phidias raphael shakespeare washington watt william-shakespeare wren	Ralph Waldo Emerson
bf3ae74	Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
c50f1dd	If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.	self-reliance	Ralph Waldo Emerson
aba3d67	Every hero becomes a bore at last.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
92871eb	The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
0fb1329	Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
76b5335	None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
57bb66d	Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
aec8f12	Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
cc08376	Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
2c56e53	Nothing can be preserved that is not good.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
755d55e	Never read any book that is not a year old.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
c02d002	What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
0a29856	I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
6302986	Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
1177d67	Every man is a new method.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
49029b2	Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
fdf74f2	I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.		Ralph Waldo Emerson
31fd87f	What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?		Ralph Waldo Emerson
728cc25	Money often costs too much.		Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

d48d212

Always do what you are afraid to do.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

a8eae35

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

inspirational life

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26246c4

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

essay inspirational lecture nonfiction philosophy self-reliance social-commentary transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson

0b9eadb

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

courage inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

5bb3946

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

advice-for-daily-living inspirational live-in-the-moment optimism wonder

Ralph Waldo Emerson

4f04dce

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

be-yourself inspirational self-improvement

Ralph Waldo Emerson

e4b1059

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9a9b3dc

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

causality causation cause-and-effect chance darwinism inspirational kalam-cosmological-argument luck naturalism necessity serendipity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

572d85a

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

brave inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

4dbe230

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

contradiction correcting correction criticism inspirational opinions paranoia

Ralph Waldo Emerson

7d72880

You become what you think about all day long.

inspirational obsession

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24e5f41

Envy is ignorance

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1176ba1

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ae5fb5b

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what t..

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ee70f5a

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

cdbce2c

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

inspirational self-determination self-expression

Ralph Waldo Emerson

5147167

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

inspirational life

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9862f8b

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

e2567af

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

216d723

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

fear inspirational self-confidence

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3e706f8

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

individualism inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c4924fd

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

4295e2e

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

inspirational

Ralph Waldo Emerson

f3f4998

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,

george-washington james-watt phidias raphael shakespeare washington watt william-shakespeare wren

Ralph Waldo Emerson

bf3ae74

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c50f1dd

If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.

self-reliance