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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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The eye is easily frightened.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
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