American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Children are all foreigners.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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