As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
But genius looks forward. The eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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