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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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