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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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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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