Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."	Art, Life, Time
"A child is a curly dimpled lunatic."	Children
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."	Friends, Sin
"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."	Friends
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."	Friends, Nature
"A good intention clothes itself with power."	Evil, Intentions, Power
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."	Courage
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."	Quotations
"A man is related to all nature."	Men, Nature
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."	Love, Conformity
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."	Age, Genius, Learning
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."	Men, Power
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."	Age, Attitude, Death
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."	Art, Men, Monarchy
"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."	Friends, Honesty, Truth
"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."	Virtue
"Accept your genius and say what you think."	Anti-Religion, Acceptance
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."	Nature, Patience
"Adopt the pace of nature."	Nature
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."	Nature
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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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