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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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Earth endures Stars abide.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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