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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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