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5 quotes from Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn, in Poems (1847)

Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora", in Poems (1847)

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, / Arrives the snow

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snow-Storm", in Poems (1847)

Things are in the saddle, / And ride mankind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing", in Poems (1847)

Give all to love; / Obey thy heart

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Give All to Love", in Poems (1847)

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