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  1. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  3. A quotation from Emerson

    It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

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  4. To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  5. A quotation from Emerson

    Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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  6. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  7. A quotation from Emerson

    Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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  8. Dreary and repellant

    All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  9. Success

    To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children […] to leave the world a bit better […] to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  10. The triumph of principles

    A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace by the triumph of principles.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  11. Arrive at the conviction

    There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  12. Sixty seconds of happiness

    For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  13. Peace

    Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  14. Death of fear

    Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

    ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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