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Ralph Waldo Emerson

1–7 October 1855

4 October 1855

Wide the gulf between genius and talent. The men we know deal with their thoughts as jewel- lers with jewels which they sell but must not wear ; like carpenters with houses too fine for such as they to live in. The mystic is as good as his gold and jewels, good as his house that he builds, goes always in purple apparel, a glis- tering angel.
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