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«Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.»
«Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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human health, human society, liar, stab, stabbing, stabs, suicide, violation, violations
«Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Foresight
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abdication, element, foresight, prudence
«Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.»
«Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.»
«Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.»
«Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science»
«We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.»
«By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Quotations
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proclivity, quote
«He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public»
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