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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
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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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
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