The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only the great generalizations survive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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