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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Temper
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Wonder
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Money often costs too much.
Money
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Adversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Music causes us to think eloquently.
Music
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Mentors
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Guests
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Necessity does everything well.
Necessity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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New arts destroy the old.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man can help another without helping himself.
Service
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Understanding
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Security
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Nicknames
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun