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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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Talent may frolic and juggle genius realizes and adds.
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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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