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"If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but

Intro Emerson begins his essay, which will carry directly into my next piece, with the announcement that an artist has inspired him and why. This essay, greater than I have ever known, was surely written in a moment of inspiration, when Emerson recognized the genius of the artist and held

""That life is heaven," he said to me suddenly, "that I have long been thinking about"; and all at once he added, "I think of nothing else indeed." He looked at me and smiled. "I am more convinced of it than you

As I started to make my thoughts more public, they seem to appeal to more and more people.