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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I am become a transparent eyeball.
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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
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Almost every man we meet requires some civility requires to be humored - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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