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

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Biography

Type: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882

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