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We Read Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
- Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
- We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret…
- 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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