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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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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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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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