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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.

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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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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
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