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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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Imitation cannot go above its model.
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I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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