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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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