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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man

Quotation

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artist

First

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age

Books

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Capitalism

Result

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death

Fear

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity

Lying

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.