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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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