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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
...too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
The house praises the carpenter.
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,-no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.


Friendship Quote
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.


Motivational Quote
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Funny Quote
The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

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