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The religions we call false were once true.
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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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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