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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Events

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accomplishments

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God

Ideas

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

Laws

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old

Want

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

Gifts

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hearing

Man

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

Fear

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate

Quotations

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gain