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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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