And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). Select Essays and Poems, p.51
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