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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.
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I covet truth beauty is unripe childhood's cheat I leave it behind with the games of youth.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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