Emerson

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“The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Thy dangerous glances
make women of men;
new-born, we are melting
into nature again.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“None can re-enter there—
No thief so politic,
No Satan with a royal trick
Steal in by window, chink, or hole,
To bind or unbind, add what lacked,
Insert a leaf, or forge a name,
New-face or finish what is packed,
Alter or mend eternal fact.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)