To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One moment of a mans life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction.
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Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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