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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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