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#1

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: fav-common-sense

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#4

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spirituality

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#5

“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter

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“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life

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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays, First Series

tags: friends, friendship, trust

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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friendship

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#9

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: nature, outdoors

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#10

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series

tags: friendship, reliability

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#12

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: animal-cruelty, diet, ethical, ethics, food, slaughterhouse, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism

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“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: travel

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#15

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: satire

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#16

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: ecology, inspirational-quotes, nature, trees

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#17

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#18

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#20

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: religion

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#21

“We boil at different degrees.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#22

“A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#23

“As we grow old...the beauty steals inward.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: aging-well

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#24

“The years teach much the days never know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: time

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#25

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: faith, harmony, love, mystery

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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way

tags: 1844, education, education-system, knowledge

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#28

“Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you've endured
From evils that never arrived.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#29

“A man is a god in ruins.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#30

“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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