Waldo Emerson

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    I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable—any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Nature is the symbol of the spirit.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)