Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived."	Anti-Religion, Worrying
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."	Change, Time
"Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world."	Friends, Strength
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."	Age, Men, Music
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."	Beauty, Criticism, Friends
"The education of the will is the object of our existence."	Education, School, Teaching
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."	Friends, Glory, Happiness
"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 god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."	Miscellaneous
"The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them."	Food
"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."	Politics
"The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."	Ideas
"The less government we have the better."	Government, Men
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."	Glory, Honor
"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."	Writing
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression."	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
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."	Friends, Military, Virtue
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."	Government, Friends
"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."	Glory, Honor, Love
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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