“I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance. But I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson , book Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

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