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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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