Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Accomplishment
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.
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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
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A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
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For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.
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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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