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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Bread
Serve
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Nature
Sometimes
Overcomes
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Loveliness
Men
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Overcoming

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