Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

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  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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  The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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  Writing, Heart, Optimistic

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• Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

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  Appreciation, Children, Successful

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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  Inspirational, Positive, Worry

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

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  Friendship, Family, Trust

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• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• A great man is always willing to be little.

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  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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  Future, Laughing, Laugh Often

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• The years in your life
  are less important
  than the life in your years.

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  Years, Important

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• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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• The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Stewardship

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• Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

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