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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

People

Content

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War

Peace

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friend

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Reality is a sliding door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God

Man

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health

Eye

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.