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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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What we call results are beginnings.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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