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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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life
inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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.
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philosophy
inspirational
lecture
transcendentalism
essay
self-reliance
social-commentary
nonfiction
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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.
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courage
inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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wonder
optimism
inspirational
advice-for-daily-living
live-in-the-moment
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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4f04dce
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Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
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be-yourself
inspirational
self-improvement
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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9a9b3dc
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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causation
kalam-cosmological-argument
inspirational
causality
serendipity
cause-and-effect
necessity
darwinism
chance
naturalism
luck
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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572d85a
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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inspirational
brave
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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4dbe230
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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correcting
criticism
inspirational
correction
contradiction
opinions
paranoia
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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You become what you think about all day long.
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inspirational
obsession
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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24e5f41
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Envy is ignorance
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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ae5fb5b
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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..
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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ee70f5a
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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.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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cdbce2c
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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self-determination
inspirational
self-expression
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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5147167
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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life
inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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9862f8b
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Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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e2567af
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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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216d723
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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fear
inspirational
self-confidence
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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3e706f8
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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inspirational
individualism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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c4924fd
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Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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4295e2e
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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inspirational
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,
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shakespeare
phidias
wren
george-washington
raphael
washington
james-watt
watt
william-shakespeare
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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.
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self-reliance
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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aba3d67
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Every man is a new method.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Money often costs too much.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |