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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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