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" There is creative reading as well as creative writing. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reading
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" Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. "
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" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "
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" Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. "
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" What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. "
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" Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. "
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" It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. "
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" The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. "
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" Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. "
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" Genius always finds itself a century too early. "
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" Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. "
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" Some books leave us free and some books make us free. "
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" Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. "
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" The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. "
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" We must be our own before we can be another's. "
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" With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. "
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" America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. "
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" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "
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" The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. "
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" Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. "
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" Men are what their mothers made them. "
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" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "
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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "
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" It is not length of life, but depth of life. "
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" We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. "
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" Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. "
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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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" If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. "
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