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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Miracle
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