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O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched.
Through thee the rose is red;
All things through thee take nobler form,
And look beyond the earth,
The mill-round of our fate appears
A sun-path in thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Today is a king in disguise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wherever there is power there is age.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any ot...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON An empire is an immense egotism.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have b...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks con...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicte...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Music causes us to think eloquently.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world is his who has money to go over it.
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