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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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