Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."	Sleeping, Time
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."	Courage, Dreams, Evil
"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out; and such as are out wish to get in."	Age, Beginnings, Hope
"It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age."	Age, Character, Goals
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."	Glory, Honor
"There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do."	Knowledge, Responsibility, Wisdom
"Men are what their mothers made them."	Men
"Money often costs too much."	Money
"Never read a book that is not a year old."	Age, Books, Reading
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."	Friends
"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."	Art, Life, Time
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool."	Men
"Life is a festival only to the wise."	Knowledge, Life, Wisdom
"The less government we have the better."	Government, Men
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."	Art, Beauty, Darkness
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."	Age, Men, Music
"The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause."	Acceptance
"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."	Miscellaneous
"Be and not seem."	Miscellaneous
"Character is what can do without success."	Character, Success
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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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