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Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Gratitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Bragging
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
Uniqueness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Teachers and Teaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Purpose
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Nicknames
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
Uncategorised
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Possibilities
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
Leaders and Leadership
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Weakness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Peace
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Work
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
Luck
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun