Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."	Friends, Sin
"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."	Friends, Honesty, Truth
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."	Age, Friends, Sin
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"Love and you shall be loved."	Love
"People only see what they are prepared to see."	Miscellaneous
"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back."	History, Intelligence, Men
"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."	Men
"What we call results are beginnings."	Beginnings
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."	Change, Evil, Knowledge
"Knowledge exists to be imparted."	Art, Knowledge, Wisdom
"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
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."	Character
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."	Art, Education, Excellence
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."	Friends, Nature
"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say."	Miscellaneous
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."	Art, Criticism, Decision-Making
"The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education."	Education, School, Teaching
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."	Beauty, Faith, Lies
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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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