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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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