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The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Brooks Atkinson

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"Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes," Emerson wrote in Nature, his statement of the principles of transcendentalism.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Tue Oct 25 00:23:01 UTC 2005
Source: The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library)
Contributed by: Brian Johnson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Tue Oct 25 00:23:01 UTC 2005
Source: The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library)
Contributed by: Brian Johnson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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