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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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
Waldo Emerson
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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