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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
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
Waldo Emerson
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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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