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Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children
Foreigners
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul
Character
Intellect
Will
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause
Effect
Fact
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will
World
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power
Wisdom
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth
Flowers
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust
End
Instinct
Reason
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reward
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother
Sleep
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel
World
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accomplishment
Trying
World
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quality
Difference
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men
Trust
Will