"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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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"Sorrow makes us all children." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sorrow makes us all children." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Beware of what you want, for you will get it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beware of what you want, for you will get it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - +Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We boil at different degrees.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We boil at different degrees.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A chief event of Life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We are of different opinions at different hours but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are of different opinions at different hours but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"As to what we call the masses, and common men; there are no common men. All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possible, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As to what we call the masses, and common men; there are no common men. All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possible, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Difficulties exist to be surmounted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Difficulties exist to be surmounted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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"Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"You become what you think about all day long." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You become what you think about all day long." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Self-trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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