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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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