Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. from essay on Self-Reliance
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All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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