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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
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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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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