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" The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Confidence
Us
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" I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Corn
Day
Live
" As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hell
Good
Souls
" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Positive
Evil
" The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatest
Greatest Gift
Thyself
" One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then
Writing
Well
" We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through
Give
Only
" The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Value
Dollar
Society
" We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know
More
Much
" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful
Truth Is
Doubt
" I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Influence
Good
Women
" For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tax
You
Receive
" Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enjoyed
You
Win
" Some books leave us free and some books make us free. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Us
Books
Free
" Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never
Will
Use
" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God
Beautiful
Opportunity
" A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
More
Man
Money
" America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eyes
America
Wait
" Science does not know its debt to imagination. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does
Debt
Science
" All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You
Experiment
Better
" To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great
Yourself
You
" Nothing external to you has any power over you. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
External
Nothing
Any
" Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Your
Timid
" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fact
Men
Good
" Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love
Men
Science
" Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Mind
World
" Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why
Volumes
One Word
" Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some
Natural
Fact
" A good indignation brings out all one's powers. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powers
Brings
Good
" When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius
Done
Work
" Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners
Fine
Support