It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essayist and philosopher · 1803 – 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist and philosopher who led the Transcendentalist movement, arguing for self-reliance, intuition and the spiritual presence in nature. His essays 'Nature' and 'Self-Reliance' shaped American thought, and he mentored both Thoreau and Whitman.
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