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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• There is no knowledge that is not power.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The ancestor to every action is a thought.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself… Serve and thou shall be served.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defiant 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 Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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