Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson