Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man... The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 23by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
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