Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."	Risk
"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow."	Experience, Military, Power
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."	Miscellaneous
"I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy."	Age, Evil, Knowledge
"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."	Quotations
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. "	Humor, Laughter
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."	Courage, Dreams, Evil
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."	Love, Confidence
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."	Evil, Men
"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
"If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach."	Leadership
"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures."	Anti-God, Attitude
"If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them."	Acceptance, Faith, Honesty
"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."	Quotations
"In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father."	America, Men
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."	Miscellaneous
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."	Anti-God, Books
"In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity."	Age, Men, Religion
"In the woods is perpetual youth."	Age
"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
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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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