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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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