Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."	Excellence, Friends, Men
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."	Character
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."	Children
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say."	Miscellaneous
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."	Age
"Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"What we call results are beginnings."	Beginnings
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Excellence
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."	Failure, Fear, Life
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."	Friends, Nature
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."	Love, Conformity
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."	Evil
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."	Dreams, Mistakes, Sleeping
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."	Character, Excellence, Intelligence
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."	Art, Genius, Honesty
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."	Courage, Dreams, Evil
"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."	Friends
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."	Change, Evil, Knowledge
"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."	Destiny, Fate, Freedom
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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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