American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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