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Nietzsche never traveled anywhere without his volume of Emerson's essays; Matthew Arnold described Emerson as "the greatest prose writer this century." Considered in his own time a profoundly radical thinker, later reviewed as a bland Boston Brahmin, Emerson is a
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Source: Essays and Poems (Everyman's Library (Paper)), Page: 54
Contributed by: Obi.
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any
longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be
the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you
should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that
what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon
whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I
will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by
hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth
with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.