Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"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
"What is the hardest thing in the world? To think."	Miscellaneous
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."	Failure, Fear, Life
"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. [Men] measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"	Desires, Men, Wants
"What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."	Duty, Equality, Excellence
"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."	Reading
"What lies behind us and what lies before us, Are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies."	Beauty, Doubt, Honesty
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."	Miscellaneous
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."	Ability, Friends, Men
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."	Beauty, Friends, Honesty
"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time."	Time
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."	Ambition, Desires, Hope
"They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors."	Miscellaneous
"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."	Men, Sin
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."	Art, Men, Nature
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities."	Honesty, Hope, Time
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."	Change, Evil, Good
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."	Life, Men
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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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