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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body»
«Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.»
«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.»
«Earth laughs in flowers.»
«In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty»
«A man is what he thinks about all day long.»
«Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.»
«All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us»
«Whatever limits us, we call Fate»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Limits | Keywords: fate, limits
«The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze»