Famous Quotes | Instead of feeling a poverty...

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Experience,” Essays, Second Series (1844).

Categories: Essayist, Greatness, Philosopher

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