Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Children are all foreigners."	Children
"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."	Government
"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
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."	Life, Men
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."	Love, Conformity
"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
"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."	God, Character
"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."	Ability, Men, Talent
"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
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."	Art, Books, Darkness
"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."	Men, Sin
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."	Courage
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."	Men
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool."	Men
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."	Men
"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."	Quotations
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."	Art
"Fame is proof that people are gullible."	Miscellaneous
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."	Destiny, Fate
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."	Age, Doubt, Mistakes
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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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