“For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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