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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is also something excellent in every audience, the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success ralph emerson

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle.

To think is to act.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

There is also something excellent in every audience, the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.