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"...the ancient precept, know thyself, and the modern precept, study nature, become at last one maxim."
 
 
ralph waldo emerson, (1803–1882), from an oration delivered to the phi beta kappa society in cambridge, massachusetts, on august 31, 1837. It is found in emerson: essays and lectures, by joel porte (1983).
 
 
 

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"...the ancient precept, know thyself, and the modern precept, study nature, become at last one maxim."