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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-trust is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-trust is the...

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Source: Success.
-- Ralph Waldo...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Spartans, stoics, heroes,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Spartans, stoics, heroes,...

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society is a...

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Some thoughts always...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Some thoughts always...

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent finds its...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent finds its...

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: That man is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: That man is...

That man is idle who can do something better.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: A nation that...

Martin Luther King, Jr: A nation that...

A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: It is my...

Martin Luther King, Jr: It is my...

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: We must build...

Martin Luther King, Jr: We must build...

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Source: In The...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Before the Pilgrims...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Before the Pilgrims...

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I am the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I am the...

I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.


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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I hate the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I hate the...

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Finish each day...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Finish each day...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

If a man . . . can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; it is...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If you would...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If you would...

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Knowledge comes by...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Knowledge comes by...

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: In skating over...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: In skating over...

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

Source: Essays, Prudence ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men are conservatives...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men are conservatives...

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Murder in the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Murder in the...

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature hates calculators....

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature hates calculators....

Nature hates calculators.

Source: In American Quotations, by Gorton Carruth,...

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