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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tension
Waiting
World
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
Character
Confession
Opinion
World
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Admiration
Old
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want
Will
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith
Moments
Vice
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Glory
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream
Illusion
Snow
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power
Feet
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men
Thought
Freedom
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Day
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
Character
Confession
Opinion
World
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
Gifts