Emerson

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    The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The soul is no traveler; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign and not like an interloper or a valet.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)