Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ 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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Every artist was first an amateur.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The years teach much which the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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