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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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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fear
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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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom
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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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Greatness
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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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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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Gratitude
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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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 find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Extra Mile
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 a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
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