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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Duty
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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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Enthusiasm
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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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Charity
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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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happiness
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 cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
Scholars and Scholarship
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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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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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Exercise
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 not length of life, but depth of life.
Life and Living
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 is knowing that we cannot know.
Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Manners
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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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Guests
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books - Reading
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