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Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Approximate author period: c. 1842 AD · industrial
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