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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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