Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Source: The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Source: Self-Reliance
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