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«The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.»
«You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.»
«Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.»
«Only poetry inspires poetry.»
«There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.»
«There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.»
«A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.»
«Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.»
«If we live truly, we shall see truly.»
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