"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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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on debt
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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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"The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on dependence
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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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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"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

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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"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disasters
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"Self-command is the main discipline."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discipline
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"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discovery
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"All diseases run into one. Old age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disease
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"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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on dress
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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on drugs
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on economy and economics
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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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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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on egotism
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"An empire is an immense egotism."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on empire   

"Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power."

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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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