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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.
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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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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