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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Frankness invites frankness.
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
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