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Sleep is not, death is not Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored
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
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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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