Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

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The world belongs to the energetic.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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The years teach much which the days never knew.

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There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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