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" People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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 person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Independence Day Life Quotes

" The only way to have a friend is to be one."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

" There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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."

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Education Quotes

" The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."

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" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive."

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" Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

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Life Quotes Success

" A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is inidual and imperious.
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" He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

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" Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

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" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

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" We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."

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" You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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