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Emerson Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Ability: Emerson Quotes
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Action: Emerson Quotes
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Achievements: Emerson Quotes
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ability: Emerson Quotes
It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ability: Emerson Quotes
That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.

Ability: Emerson Quotes
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Achievements: Emerson Quotes
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Achievements: Emerson Quotes
This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

Achievements: Emerson Quotes
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ability: Emerson Quotes
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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