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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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It is never too late to do right.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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A man of no conversation should smoke.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken that act or step is the spiritual act all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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