Quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson in His Journals , ed. by Joel Porte (1982).:"Nominalist and Realist" Essays, Second Series (1844)"Ability" English Traits (1856)"Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844" Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903)"Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1884" Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903)

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Here among the mountains the pinions of thought should be strong, and one should see the errors of men from a calmer height of love and wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Journal entry, 1832. quoted in notes to "The Lord's Supper," Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).

Written in the White Mountains of New Hampshire as Emerson contemplated leaving the ministry.

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