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What lies behind ourselves and what lies ahead of ourselves are small matters compared to what lies within ourselves.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
By 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.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing
By Ralph Waldo Emerson