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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.

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
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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