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Our Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Our best thoughts come from others.
- Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
- We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
- In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
- The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
- We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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