Ralph Waldo Emerson

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.

Your path will unfold as you walk it, step by step, each one a choice. Be mindful of where you put your feet; sometimes you will step on something sharp. This is a lesson; pay attention. Sometimes you will walk on soft green grass and you will stop and stay awhile. Enjoy those moments. Keep your eyes and heart on your destination and discover your way, one step at a time.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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