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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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