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Quotes of Ralph W Emerson [82]
- Do your thing and I shall know you.
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
- Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness - whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords or canals, or statues, or songs.
- As we grow old... the beauty steals inward.
- We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
- What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
- As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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