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Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. 1803; d. 1882 · 20 aphorisms · no comments
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Comment# · Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Comment# · Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Comment# · Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Comment# · Fair (96 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Comment# · Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Comment# · Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
Comment# · Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
Comment# · Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Comment# · Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Comment# · Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in
Success and Failure and
Work and Recreation
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