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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
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Character is that which can do without success.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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