The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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