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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action

Theory

Worth

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day

Man

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

Danger

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty

Old

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Value

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage

Man

America is another name for opportunity.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty

Grace

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt

Man

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man