Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Overcoming
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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.
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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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