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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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