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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
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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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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