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"The first wealth is health."
104+ Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A curated collection of 104 inspirational quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"The first wealth is health."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The first wealth is health."
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"Every artist was first an amateur."
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"Beauty without expression is boring."
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"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."
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"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
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"The years teach much which the days never know."
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"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual."
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"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
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"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"God enters by a private door into every individual."
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
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"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
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"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
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"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."
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"True balance means knowing when to act and when to simply be."
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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
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"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
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"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
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"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
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"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
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"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
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"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
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"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
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"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
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"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
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"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
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"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
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"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."
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"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
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"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
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"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
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"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."