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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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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We may be partial, but Fate is not.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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