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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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