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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.972, Library of America

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

"The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.