Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Be and not seem."	Miscellaneous
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."	Art, Change, Men
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."	Reading
"The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities."	Honesty, Hope, Time
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."	Life, Men
"Life is a progress, and not a station."	Life
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."	Courage, Fear
"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."	Reading
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear."	Fear, Learning, Lies
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."	Lies, Men, Strength
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."	Fear, Learning, Life
"Love and you shall be loved."	Love
"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back."	History, Intelligence, Men
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."	Acceptance, Faith, Lies
"Love is the essence of God."	Love
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."	Beauty, Darkness, Intentions
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."	Friends, Generosity
"It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."	Evil, Good
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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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