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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Nature
Omnipresent
Bursts
Thin
Screen
Screens
Everywhere
God
Glory

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