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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Value
Will
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society
Value
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Wisdom
Work
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eyes
Sky
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being
Ugliness
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men
Dream
Occupation
Youth
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God
Anarchy
Chance
Universe
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Future
Nothing
Now
Past
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Work
Genius
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quarrel
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Possession
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saying
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Word
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Goodness