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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happiness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Conventionality
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.
Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Expectation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Gratitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
Scholars and Scholarship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Extra Mile
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Property
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Bragging
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Learning
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Consultants
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Integrity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
Uniqueness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
Generosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Honesty
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