Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."	Change, Time
"Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world."	Friends, Strength
"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."	Glory, Honor, Love
"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."	Age, Evil, Knowledge
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."	Men
"Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours."	Art
"Fame is proof that people are gullible."	Miscellaneous
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."	Education, Knowledge, School
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."	Friends, Glory, Happiness
"In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity."	Age, Men, Religion
"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."	Men, Strength
"The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."	Fear, Glory, Honor
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."	Art, Men, Monarchy
"If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them."	Acceptance, Faith, Honesty
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."	Friends
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."	Miscellaneous
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. "	Humor, Laughter
"O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas."	Fear
"The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."	Ideas
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."	Success, Law
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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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