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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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