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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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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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