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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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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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