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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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