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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Nature
Calamity
Always
Colors
Men
Hath
Heat
Sadness
Color
Fire
Laboring
Spirit
Wears

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