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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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