Emerson on Shakespeare:

"Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition, and Shakespeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1879

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"Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition, and Shakespeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1879)