Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). Essays, First and Second Series, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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