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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Prudence." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Prudence." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Heroism." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Heroism." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "History." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "History (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Compensation." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Compensation (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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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. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.