'Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance.'To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.'Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.'.'What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.'.'Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.'.'What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.'.'If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.'.'Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.'.'Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.'.'Your genuine action will explain itself, and.'The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.'.Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

'Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word.

'A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.'.

'The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.'.

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'Character is built on the debris of our despair.'.

'Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.'.

'A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.'.

'Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.'.

'The years teach much the days never know.'.

The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.'

'The only way to have a friend is to be one.'.

'What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.'.

'Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.'.

'No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back.'.

Just let yourself be inspired by his sayings here. This also makes him a political and moral role model for all generations. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a declared opponent of slavery.

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