Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Thought is the seed of action."	Miscellaneous
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."	Peace
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."	Conformity, Men
"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."	Friends
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."	Beauty, Happiness, Hope
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."	Excellence, Men, Power
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."	Ability, Age, Honesty
"When it is darkest, men see the stars."	Darkness, Light, 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
"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."	Reading
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear."	Fear, Learning, Lies
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."	Lies, Men, Strength
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one..."	Age, Ambition, Desires
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."	Fear, Learning, Life
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Peace
"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."	Honesty, Justice, Truth
"Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."	Friends
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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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