Ralph Waldo Emerson — a remark

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“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation.”

Urges the development of one's distinctive capacities rather than imitation · Essay, Self-Reliance (1841)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 May 1803–27 April 1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 25 May 1803 and dead in Concord, Massachusetts, on 27 April 1882, became one of the defining voices of nineteenth-century American literature. He was at once a poet, essayist, lecturer, editor, religious dissenter, and public moralist, though no single title…

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