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Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
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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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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