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THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION

Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson · 3 quotes · About Yourself, Aversion, Be You

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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”