Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."	Love, Confidence
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."	Government, Friends
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."	Love, Conformity
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."	Evil, Good, Religion
"There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do."	Knowledge, Responsibility, Wisdom
"Money often costs too much."	Money
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."	Virtue
"The less government we have the better."	Government, Men
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better."	Life, Men
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."	Age
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."	Ability, Age, Honesty
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."	Men
"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."	Sleeping, Time
"Men are what their mothers made them."	Men
"Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."	Friends
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."	Beauty, Help, Life
"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
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."	Courage
"Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies."	Beauty, Doubt, Honesty
"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow."	Experience, Military, Power
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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