Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Quotes from Society and Solitude — Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882 United States
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.