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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
Waldo Emerson
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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If with love thy heart has burned If thy love is unreturned Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.
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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
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