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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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