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Begin Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything…
- [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.…
- Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
- A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the…
- Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
- Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will…
- Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn…
- There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
- [Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and…
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as…
- Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one…
- Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
- ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes…
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as…
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon…
- Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them…
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- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
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- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
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