American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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America is another name for opportunity.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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