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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”