Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"In the woods is perpetual youth."	Age
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."	Quotations
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."	Science
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something."	Miscellaneous
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."	Change, Friends, Time
"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."	God, Character
"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
"To fill the hour-that is happiness."	Happiness, Joy
"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. [Men] measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"	Desires, Men, Wants
"Knowledge exists to be imparted."	Art, Knowledge, Wisdom
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."	Miscellaneous
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."	Miscellaneous
"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."	God, Character
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."	Nature, Patience
"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."	Miscellaneous
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."	Anger, Fear, Knowledge
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."	Men
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."	Darkness, Light, Nature
"The years teach much which the days never know."	Education, Knowledge, School
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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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