Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	America
"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends."	Thanksgiving
"For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!"	Thanksgiving
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."	Art
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."	Anti-God, Attitude
"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."	Beauty
"All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world."	Love, Confidence
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."	Courage
"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."	Food
"God enters by a private door into each individual."	God
"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley."	Comedy, Help
"History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement."	Economics, History
"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."	Politics
"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."	Risk
"Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."	Anti-Religion, Worrying
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."	Quotations
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."	Quotations
"Accept your genius and say what you think."	Anti-Religion, Acceptance
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."	Success
"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."	Patriotism
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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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