Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
it was a high counsel I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius appeals to the future.
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The years teach us much the days never knew.