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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now.
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
There is properly no history; only biography.
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 life.
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
What we do we must, and call it by the best names.
Love Quote
Nearly all human beings love, but nearly none know how to love.
Family Quote
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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