"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"There is no one who does not exaggerate!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exaggeration   

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"'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exaggeration   

"The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on example   

"There is always a best way of doing everything."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on excellence   

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on extra mile   

"The eye is easily frightened."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faces   

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"If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts   

"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts   

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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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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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"The course of everything goes to teach us faith."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith   

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fame
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"The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on familiarity
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"The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on farming and farmers   

"Whatever limits us we call fate."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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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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"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"

Persius on freedom   

"Oh, what a void there is in things."

Persius on materialism   

"He conquers who endures."

Persius on perseverance   

"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays."

Persius on worry   

"Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing."

Persius on creativity   

"If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?"

Walsh, Basil S. on goals
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"An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive."

Walsh, Basil S. on planning   

"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have."

Walsh, Basil S. on success
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"What we need is to use what we have."

Walsh, Basil S. on action
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"A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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