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Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tags: poetry, language, knowledge, education

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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