God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is properly no history; only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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