Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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The best quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Published before 06/01/2004
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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All things are not as difficualt for who faces them with more serenity.
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Your actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
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There is a certain poverty in our critic. We assume that there are only few great men, and that the remaining are small; that there is only one Homer, only one Shakespeare, only one Newton, only one Socrates. But the soul, in its radiant hours, doesn't recognize these usurpations. We should know how to praise Socrates, or Plato, or St. John, without impoverishing.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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