Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A man is related to all nature."	Men, Nature
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."	Miscellaneous
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile...it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."	Friends, Glory, Honesty
"The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."	Anger, Fear, Knowledge
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool."	Men
"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even."	Age, Art, Death
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."	Excellence, Men, Power
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."	Art, Books, Darkness
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud."	Friends, Sin
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."	Age, Friends, Sin
"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
"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
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."	Destiny, Fate
"The education of the will is the object of our existence."	Education, School, Teaching
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."	Quotations
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	Quotations
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"	Nature
"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."	Quotations
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."	Success, Life
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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
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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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