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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A friend is one before whom you may think aloud."	Friendship
"A friend is the hope of the heart."	Friendship
"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."	Courage
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer."	Courage
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."	Beauty
"Courage consists in the power of self-recovery."	Courage
"Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant."	Art
"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know."	Friendship
"God enters by a private door into every individual."	God
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both."	Truth & Lies
"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."	Fear
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."	Quotations
"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."	Miscellaneous
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."	Miscellaneous
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."	Friendship
"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."	Knowledge
"Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks."	Nature
"Life is a festival only to the wise."	Life & Death, Wisdom
"Men are what their mothers made them."	Family
"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."	Music

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