The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.103, Harvard University Press
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The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.103, Harvard University Press

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