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" We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too
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" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "
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" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "
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" Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. "
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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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" Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. "
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" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "
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" The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. "
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" Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. "
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" Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. "
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" Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. "
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You
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" O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. "
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" Every artist was first an amateur. "
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" Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.' "
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People
See
Prepared
" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
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Must
Truth
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