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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is...
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
Source: Representative Men, ch. 1, Uses of Great Men, 1850.
-- 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.