Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. β¨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.118, Penguin
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- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. β¨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.65, Penguin
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