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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/13/whitman-emerson-criticism/
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Circles,” Essays: First Series, No. 10Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
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