Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."	Men, Success
"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly."	Beauty, Justice, Knowledge
"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
"Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date."	Books
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."	Desires, Life, Wants
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."	Quotations
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Peace
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."	Character
"People only see what they are prepared to see."	Miscellaneous
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."	Art
"Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."	Change, Friends, Time
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."	Science
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."	Lies, Men, Strength
"Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities."	Health
"Skill to do comes of doing."	Ability
"Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree."	Sleep
"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."	Genius, Men, Time
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."	Evil
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."	Courage, Fear
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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