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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought-two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.
There is no history; only biography.
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair the rest of his days.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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