Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself… Serve and thou shall be served.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor to every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.









