Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no knowledge that is not power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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