"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

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"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."

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"When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on communication
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"Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."

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"Self-trust is the first secret to success."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-trust
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on success
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"Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you."

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"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified."

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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on simplicity   

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on luck
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"Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on manners
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"The basis of good manners is self-reliance."

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"Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on pleasure
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"Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on possibilities   

"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne."

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"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on safety
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"The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sea
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"Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought."

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"Genius Borrows nobly."

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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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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on lies and lying
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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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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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Fear always springs from ignorance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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