Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."	Friends
"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."	Honesty, Justice, Truth
"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."	Friends, Honesty, Truth
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."	Desires, Life, Wants
"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."	Age, Books, Courage
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."	Men, Power
"Adopt the pace of nature."	Nature
"Nature hates calculators."	Nature
"To be great is to be misunderstood."	Excellence, Greatness
"What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."	Duty, Equality, Excellence
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"	Change, Memory, Money
"People only see what they are prepared to see."	Miscellaneous
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."	Art, Education, Excellence
"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."	Anger, Forgiveness, Quitting
"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."	Conformity, Men
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory."	Death
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."	Adversity, Age, Courage
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Peace
"Skill to do comes of doing."	Ability
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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
Writing