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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 161-200
161 Power and speed be hands and feet.
162 Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
163 Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim of slave of his actions.
164 The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
165 A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
166 If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
167 Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
168 There is always safety in valor.
169 Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
170 The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
171 Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
172 A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
173 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
174 Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
175 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
176 To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
177 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
178 When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
179 One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
180 Every burned book enlightens the world.
181 It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
182 The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
183 Nature hates calculators.
184 Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all times.
185 Beauty without expression is boring.
186 An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
187 There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
188 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
189 The only way to have a friend is to be one.
190 God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
191 As soon as there is life there is danger.
192 It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
193 Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
194 We are always getting ready to live but never living.
195 Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
196 Reality is a sliding door.
197 Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
198 To be great is to be misunderstood.
199 Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
200 Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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