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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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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