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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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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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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‘Tis very certain that each person carries in their eye the exact indication of their rank in the immense scale of humanity, and we are always learning to read it. A complete person should need no auxiliaries to their personal presence.
~ 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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