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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
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