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"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Ballads, bons mots, and anecdotes give us better insights into the depths of past centuries than grave and voluminous chronicles." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, via Anecdotage.com

"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), via Dog News

Planning | "To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love is the essence of God." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, via email from Carla

"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, poet and philosopher, (1803-1882)

"Make yourself necessary to somebody." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, via email from Carla

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health | "Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first wealth is health." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization | "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behavior | "Manners are the happy ways of doing things." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Thought is the property of those who can entertain it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ability | "Skill to do comes of doing" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson