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Significant Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never…
- Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
- Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead…
- There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we…
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