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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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Every man is eloquent once in his life.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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