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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Lectures and Biographical Sketches (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing - ISBN: 9780766189195

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009 edition), Random House LLC - ISBN: 9780307419910

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Essays: First Series (1841)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Edition (2008 edition), ReadHowYouWant.com - ISBN: 9781442947184

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009 edition), Random House LLC - ISBN: 9780307419910

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Essays (1978 edition)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man in debt is so far a slave.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (1866 edition), [s.n.]

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.] (1870 edition)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004 edition), Spark Educational Publishing - ISBN: 9781593080761

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems (2006 edition), Random House LLC - ISBN: 9780553903324

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source/Notes: Self-reliance, and Other Essays (1993 edition), Courier Dover Publications - ISBN: 9780486277905

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