Who Ralph Waldo Emerson cites
Lines where Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes or credits someone, and where others do the same for them. Every line is in their own words, with the page it is on.
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Naval Ravikant
Quotes
Emerson did this all the time. He would phrase things in a beautiful way and you would say, “Oh, that’s exactly what I was thinking and feeling, but I didn’t know how to articulate it.” And the way he put it was he said, “In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
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