Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, and you shall be loved.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Me too thy nobleness has taught

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson