God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. Essays, First Series - Page 160by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
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