A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson
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In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
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