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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to...
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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is --Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity,
Source: The Conduct of Life, Power, 1860.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.