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Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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



Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



These rabble at Washington ... see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 


Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 


By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson







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