Emerson

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    Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)