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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
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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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
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