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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ability
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Perseverance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
Difficulties
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Desire
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Cities and City Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Courage
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
Enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Uncategorised
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Sincerity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Fame
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
Flowers
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Law and Lawyers
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He is great who confers the most benefits.
Service
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Conventionality
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.
Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Risk
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
Education
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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun