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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward in talent from without inward.
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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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.
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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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Great men are sincere.
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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
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