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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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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The shot heard round the world.
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