Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."	Quotations
"Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions."	Humor
"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."	Failure
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."	Glory, Honor
"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
"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
"When it is darkest, men see the stars."	Darkness, Light, Men
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."	Art, Beauty, Darkness
"What lies behind us and what lies before us, Are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."	Ambition, Desires, Hope
"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
"Always do what you are afraid to do."	Fear
"What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."	Ability, Hope, Life
"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly."	Beauty, Justice, Knowledge
"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
"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
"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."	Virtue
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."	Friends, Military, Virtue
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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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