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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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