It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
~ 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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In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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