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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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