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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace

Mind

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tax

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

Society

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners

Support

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams

Character

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gods

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