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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.”

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Book:Dust tracks on a road

Source: Dust tracks on a road

“No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.”

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Author:Katherine Mansfield

“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”

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Book:Amazing Grace

Source: Amazing Grace

“In summer, the song sings itself.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

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