Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thanksgiving Quotes, Thankful Quotes

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

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Concentration is the secret of srength.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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Power educates the potentate.

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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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