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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
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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Popularity is for dolls.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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