There is properly no history, only biography.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him.

—Mariana Zapata in Under Locke

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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

—Pope John Paul II

History is more or less bunk.

The British during World War ii came up with some imaginative ideas. One was to freeze the clouds, move them along the coast of southern England, and use them as platforms for antiaircraft guns.

—Richard Kehl

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In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalog. Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a Nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. We in America have not always been kind to the artists and the scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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