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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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