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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

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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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Knowledge
Action
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Thinking

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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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