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Which Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- The years teach much which the days never know.
- Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and…
- It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this,…
- Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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