Ralph Waldo Emerson — a remark

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“The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.”

Observes how continually character is tested and perceived in ordinary life · Essay, Spiritual Laws (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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