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Necessity does everything well.
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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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