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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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The lover of letters loves power too.
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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