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If we live truly, we shall see truly.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Work, Positivity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.142, Harvard University Press

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Positive, Success
'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Happiness, Gratitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Positive, Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Attitude, Perspective
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Uplifting, Time
Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Positive, Girl
Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

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