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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1803–1882

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“Self-reliance is not ego. Emerson tells you to trust yourself because he believes something vast is speaking through you — and conformity is how you drown it out.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 169

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“One universal soul lives in every human being, and it speaks to you directly — through intuition and through nature — so stop imitating other people and other centuries, and trust the voice within.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 169

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