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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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