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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
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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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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