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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dark, stars

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#3

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

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#4

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success

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#5

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

tags: life

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#6

“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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#7

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
― Ronald E. Osborn

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-emerson

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#8

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: greatness

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#9

“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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#10

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: ataraxy, inner-peace

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#11

“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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#12

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia

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#13

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#14

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: quotes

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#15

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

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#16

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance

tags: self-reliance

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#17

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: prayer

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#18

“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: animal-cruelty, diet, ethical, ethics, food, slaughterhouse, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism

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#19

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#20

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: travel

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#21

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: satire

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#22

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: actions-inspirational-action, ancestor, thoughts

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#23

“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

tags: appearances, institutions, labels, values

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#24

“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational

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#25

“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

tags: church, religion

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#26

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#27

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: death, death-and-dying, loss

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#28

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#29

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

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#30

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: information-age, information-overload, social-media

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