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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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