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Ralph Waldo Emerson: He who is...

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Source: The Method of Nature, oration, 11 Aug 1841, delivered to the Society of the Adelphi, Waterville College, ME; in The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1889.
-- 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.


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