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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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«One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No Man,
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«Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Diamond,
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«When it is darkest, men see the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mankind
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Keywords:
After Dark,
all star,
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dark a,
men,
see,
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stars
«How much of human life is lost in waiting.»
«Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.»
«To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poet)
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Keywords:
ADD,
blow,
coals,
defeat,
Divine,
firm,
flame,
inspire,
redeem,
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useful
«Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.»
«The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul»
«It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself»