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961 quotesGreat geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
Service
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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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Purpose
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ability
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
Leaders and Leadership
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Beginning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Poverty and The Poor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Trade
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Trust
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