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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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
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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
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