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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
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