Miscellaneous quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something."
"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
"Be and not seem."
"What is the hardest thing in the world? To think."
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."
"They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors."
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
"The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
"Thought is the seed of action."
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say."
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
"Fame is proof that people are gullible."
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."