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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
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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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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