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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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