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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lies

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Actions

Words

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart

Day

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness

Will

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistake

Symbol

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

God

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poor

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

State

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Living