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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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