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RWE Quotes
06 July 2013
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Every artist was first an amateur.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
A great man is always willing to be little.
All mankind love a lover.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping
himself.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done
otherwise shall give him no peace.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something
else.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The years teach much which the days never know.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently
as we awake from dreams.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The first wealth is health.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
What you are comes to you.
Every wall is a door.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave
of his action.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all
crime mean and ugly.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Give all to love; obey thy heart." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A believer is never disturbed, because others do not yet see the fact which he sees." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world belongs to the energetic." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding." -- Ralph Waldo
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"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." -- 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
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ideas must work though the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not be too timid and squeamish. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every hero becomes a bore at last." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great men are they that see spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Children are all foreigners." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ancestor of every action is a thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hitch your wagon to a star." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Civilization, 1870
"Every artist was first an amateur." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is
provided with a resource against calamity." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Glory is a light which shines from us to others, not from others to us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep
it in repair, the rest of his days." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make
any stand against good wit." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a
crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge,
and fox, and squirrel." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make
the better." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept
in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark
of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"People only see what they are prepared to see." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Without ambition one starts nothing.
Without work one finishes nothing.
The prize will not be sent to you.
You have to win it.
The man who knows how will always have a job.
The man who also knows why will always be his boss.
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."
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you
are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course
of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but
it takes brave men and women to win them." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of
others as it is to invent." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the
idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands
his own." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He is great who confers the most benefits." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But
the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I
knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the
public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him
upon his private bench from which he had never stirred." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without
this faculty. Ralph Waldo Emerson
""Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an
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The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out
brute labor." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than
in the poem." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books
of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a
knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end. though you can render no reason." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Work is victory." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do
without temperance." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson