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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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