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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
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