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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.

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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Men are better than this theology.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
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