One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Fame is proof that people are gullible

Fame is proof that people are gullible

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Culture, with us, ends in headache

Culture, with us, ends in headache

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to...

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to...

Do the thing and you will be given the power

Do the thing and you will be given the power

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast...

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast...

Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There's no god dare wrong a worm

Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There's no god dare wrong a worm

Fear is the highest fence.

Fear is the highest fence.

Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you;...

Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you;...

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions