Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."	Destiny, Fate, Freedom
"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out; and such as are out wish to get in."	Age, Beginnings, Hope
"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
"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."	Men
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."	Death, Fear, Reading
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."	Success, Life
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."	Beauty, Help, Life
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."	Age, Friends, Sin
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."	Beauty, Help, Life
"It is very hard to be simple enough to be good."	Evil, Good
"It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age."	Age, Character, Goals
"Knowledge exists to be imparted."	Art, Knowledge, Wisdom
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."	Dreams, Mistakes, Sleeping
"Life is a festival only to the wise."	Knowledge, Life, Wisdom
"Life is a progress, and not a station."	Life
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."	Life, Success
"Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."	Ability, Life, Time
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."	Beauty, Darkness, Intentions
"Look out! Behind you!"	God, Stupidity
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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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