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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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