"Insist on yourself; never imitate . . . That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No person yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. What is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great person is unique . . . Is not a person better than a town? . . . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo: Aspen leaf resting in a Douglas-fir branch; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; September 29, 2012
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