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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
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