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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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