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Ralph Waldo Emerson · Intelligence

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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