Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."	Excellence, Men, Power
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better."	Life, Men
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."	Miscellaneous
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."	Quotations
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."	Ability, Age, Honesty
"All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world."	Love, Confidence
"Always do what you are afraid to do."	Fear
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	America
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	Quotations
"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."	Beauty
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."	Change, Evil, Good
"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley."	Comedy, Help
"Be and not seem."	Miscellaneous
"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
"Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours."	Art
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."	Acceptance, Faith, Lies
"Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."	Friends
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"	Change, Memory, Money
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."	Character, Excellence, Intelligence
"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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