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Writes Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
- Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
- For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
- Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt…
- An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he…
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