"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on gifts
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ambition
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"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on goals   

"He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence
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"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on light
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"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"A man is related to all nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"The more experiments you make the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"So far as a person thinks; they are free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on freedom
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"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on obstacles
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"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions
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"Every wall is a door."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity   

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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