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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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