The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fear always springs
from ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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The South-wind brings
Life, sunshine and desire,
And on every mount and meadow
Breathes aromatic fire;
But over the dead he has no power,
The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;
And, looking over the hills, I mourn
The darling who shall not return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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