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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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