Vinculums of the Nexus
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Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The years teach us much the days never knew.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world belongs to the energetic.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
~Ralph Waldo Emersonfrom Journals, 1839
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God offers to everyone his choice between truth and repose. Take which you please--you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson