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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What you are comes to you.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25th, 1803

Died: April 27th, 1882

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