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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Oration, August 31, 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts. “The American Scholar,” repr. In Emerson: Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte (1983).

Categories: Essayist, Knowledge, Philosopher, Suffering, Wisdom

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