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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
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