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Copernicus
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Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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Now I know what appears
as the motion of Heaven
is just the motion of Earth.
Not stars.
Not whatever I want.
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