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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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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Nature hates calculators.
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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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