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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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