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The surest poison is time.

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
Surest
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Time

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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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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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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