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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
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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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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