We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?


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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought s...
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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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