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#1

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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#3

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#4

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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#6

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter

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#7

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

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#8

“Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, self-improvement

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#9

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: kindness

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#10

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#11

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: beauty, power

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#12

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: peace

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#13

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity

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#14

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#15

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

tags: integrity, mind

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#16

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#17

“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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#18

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#19

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: success

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#20

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spiritual

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#21

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: decoration, friends, home, homemaking, house, visitors

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#22

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: fav-common-sense

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#23

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: character, humanity

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#24

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspiration

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#25

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#26

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: fear

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#27

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: horse-riding

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#28

“The years teach much the days never know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: time

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#29

“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: children

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#30

“Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
― John Quincy Adams

tags: inspirational

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