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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading

Writing

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Will

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language

Will

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Folk

Hesitation

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion

There is always safety in valor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Safety

Valor

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Right

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Years

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil