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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
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
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
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