Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are prisoners of ideas.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Work is victory.
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
Be and not seem.
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
We become what we think about all day long.
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Pay attention to your inner voice. For it needs you to analyse what you are thinking about.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
You cannot mix sports with politics.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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