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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.
         

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.


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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

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Beauty without expression tires.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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