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Grow angry slowly – there's plenty of time.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Profession: Poet
Nationality: American

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Genius is the activity which repairs the decay of things.

Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him ... I see not how it can be otherwise.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I launch eagerly into this resounding tumult.

No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

The world exists for the education of each man.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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