Cool & famous Quotes by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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• Happiness

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

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• Education

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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• Motivational

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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• Truth

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

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• Life

You become what you think about all day long.

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• Inspirational

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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• Love

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

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• Inspirational

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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• Life

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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• Books

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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• Hope

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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• Wisdom

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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• Inspirational

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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• Inspirational

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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• Books

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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• Life

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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• Inspirational

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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• Books

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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• Education

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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• Inspirational

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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• Inspirational

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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• Inspirational

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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• Inspirational

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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• Inspirational

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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• Inspirational

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

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• Inspirational

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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• Happiness

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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• Life

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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• Life

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

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• Inspirational