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Danh ngôn của Ralph Waldo Emerson (Sứ mệnh: 1)

The years teach much which the days never know.
All mankind love a lover.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
The earth laughs in flowers.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
The first wealth is health.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
We are wiser than we know.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Our best thoughts come from others.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Money often costs too much.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.