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The world exists for the education of each man.
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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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
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