Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."	Age
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."	Miscellaneous
"Life is a progress, and not a station."	Life
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."	Change, Friends, Time
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better."	Life, Men
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little 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, Criticism, Friends
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."	Age, Attitude, Death
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."	Knowledge, Life, Men
"The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."	Miscellaneous
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."	Courage, Fear
"What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?"	Death, Excellence
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."	Death, Fear, Reading
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."	Evil, Good, Religion
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."	Age
"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
"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even."	Age, Art, Death
"Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."	Virtue
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."	Age, Genius, Learning
"The years teach much which the days never know."	Education, Knowledge, School
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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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