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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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A forte always makes a foible.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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Genius is power, talent is applicability.
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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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