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"Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks." -
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Top 5 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Top 5 quotes from Nature
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
"Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning."
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
"I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art."
"Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots."
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