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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: transcendentalism, transcendentalists

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"Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature and Selected Essays)

tags: god, transcendentalism

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"This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: transcendentalism

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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: transcendentalism

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