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A man should give us a sense of mass.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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