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8984 quotesFor what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius Borrows nobly.
Plagiarism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Present
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
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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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Heroes and Heroism
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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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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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
Scholars and Scholarship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Consultants
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 is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
self-esteem
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Honesty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friends and Friendship
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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Language is the archives of history.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
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