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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
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If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs,

"The Gods are to each other not unknown."

Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.
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Character is higher than intellect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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