American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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There is always safety in valor.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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