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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first wealth is health.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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