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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.
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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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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