Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science
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The soul is no traveler the wise man stays at home... Traveling is a fool's paradise.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.
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One moment of a mans life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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