"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong"
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"Books are for nothing but to inspire"
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."