“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”
Variant: Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
Source: Invisible Monsters
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Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.”
Letter (Spring 1850)
I am absurdly fearful about this voyage. Various little omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.... Perhaps we shall live to laugh at these. But in case of mishap I should perish with my husband and child, perhaps to be transferred to some happier state.
Letter to Marchioness Visconti Arconati (6 April 1850) as quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 274, the differences could be from differing translations or from omissions, as Emerson is said to have highly edited many of the letters as published in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Context: I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling. I am become indeed a miserable coward, for the sake of Angelino. I fear heat and cold, fear the voyage, fear biting poverty. I hope I shall not be forced to be as brave for him, as I have been for myself, and that, if I succeed to rear him, he will be neither a weak nor a bad man. But I love him too much! In case of mishap, however, I shall perish with my husband and my child, and we may be transferred to some happier state.
