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All writing comes by the grace of God.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

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Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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A system-grinder hates the truth.

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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

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I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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