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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
         

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.


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This page presents the quote "The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.". Author of this quote is Ralph Waldo Emerson. This quote is about ends, culture, men, poet, secret, saint, universal, quality, solitude,.