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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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