Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote	Categories	Rating
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."	Evil
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."	Anger, Fear, Knowledge
"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly."	Beauty, Justice, Knowledge
"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."	Excellence, Friends, Men
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory."	Death
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something."	Miscellaneous
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."	Anger, Fear, Knowledge
"Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."	Love
"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."	Darkness, Light, Nature
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"	Change, Memory, Money
"This world we live in is but thickened light."	Darkness, Life, Light
"Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."	Ability, Life, Time
"What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"To fill the hour-that is happiness."	Happiness, Joy
"Skill to do comes of doing."	Ability
"A man is related to all nature."	Men, Nature
"Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."	Books
"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow."	Experience, Military, Power
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Excellence
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."	Men
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Ability	Acceptance	Accomplishment
Achievement	Adversity	Age
Ambition	America	Anger
Anti-God	Anti-Religion	Art
Attitude	Beauty	Beginnings
Books	Change	Character
Children	Comedy	Confidence
Conformity	Courage	Criticism
Darkness	Death	Decision-Making
Desires	Destiny	Difficulty
Doubt	Dreams	Duty
Economics	Education	Equality
Evil	Excellence	Experience
Failure	Faith	Fate
Fear	Food	Forgiveness
Freedom	Friends	Generosity
Genius	Glory	Goals
God	Good	Government
Greatness	Happiness	Health
Help	History	Honesty
Honor	Hope	Humor
Ideas	Imagination	Intelligence
Intentions	Joy	Justice
Knowledge	Laughter	Law
Leadership	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Memory	Men
Military	Miscellaneous	Mistakes
Monarchy	Money	Music
Nature	Patience	Patriotism
Peace	Poetry	Politics
Power	Quitting	Quotations
Reading	Religion	Responsibility
Risk	School	Science
Sin	Sleep	Sleeping
Strength	Stupidity	Success
Talent	Teaching	Thanksgiving
Time	Truth	Violence
Virtue	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying
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