There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: spirituality
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspirational causality necessity chance naturalism darwinism luck causation cause-and-effect kalam-cosmological-argument serendipity
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: inspiration
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe world we live in is but thickened light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: fear
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBy necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: quotes
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