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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882 (aged 78)
Bio: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Known for:
  1. Self-Reliance (1841)
  2. Nature (1836)
  3. Essays: First Series (1841)
  4. Representative Men
  5. The Conduct of Life (1860)
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man, nature, life, thought, love, power, time, soul, truth, mind, god, find, day, beauty, eyes

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