Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good mod…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures, p.90, Harvard University Press
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