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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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