Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."	Sleeping, Time
"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 everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something."	Miscellaneous
"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
"Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."	Love
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."	Friends
"God enters by a private door into each individual."	God
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."	Success, Law
"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."	Excellence, Friends, Men
"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
"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."	Learning
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."	Friends
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."	Fear, Learning, Life
"He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses."	Anti-Religion, Violence
"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."	Art
"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
"Hitch your wagon to a star."	Miscellaneous
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"	Nature
"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."	Age, Books, Courage
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."	Friends, Generosity
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Children	Comedy	Confidence
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God	Good	Government
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Help	History	Honesty
Honor	Hope	Humor
Ideas	Imagination	Intelligence
Intentions	Joy	Justice
Knowledge	Laughter	Law
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Risk	School	Science
Sin	Sleep	Sleeping
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Talent	Teaching	Thanksgiving
Time	Truth	Violence
Virtue	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying
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