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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Want
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Strength
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Goals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are the prisoners of ideas.
Conflict
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Aid and Assistance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Necessity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Finance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Temptation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We walk alone in the world.
Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Difficulties
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wherever there is power there is age.
Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.
Weakness
G. Emmons

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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Habit
Nathaniel Emmons

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.
Truth
Yumus Emre

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