
“ What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws (1841). copy citation
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1841
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English
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in "Essays: First Series"
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