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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
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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 secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
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Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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The shot heard round the world.
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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions I will seek my own.
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Look out! Behind you!
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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