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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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