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Poets should be law-givers that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
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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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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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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