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“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All mankind love a lover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
