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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
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We pass for what we are.
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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
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