Emerson

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“How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of the body to think!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Ere he was born, the stars of fate
Plotted to make him rich and great:
When from the womb the babe was loosed,
The gate of gifts behind him closed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)