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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
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