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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.
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