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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
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