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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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 the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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