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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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