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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott