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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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There is no man of Nature's worth
In the circle of the earth.
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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force.
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I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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None shall rule but the humble,
And none but Toil shall have.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
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The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.
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The day will come when no badge or uniform or star will be worn.
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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
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Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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