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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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