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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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