“True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear, as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circles (Primary source)
In this essay, Emerson discusses the idea that everything in life is constantly expanding and evolving, like concentric circles. It emphasizes the fluid and ever-changing nature of truth and knowledge.
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