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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Spiritual laws - Great souls
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Ralph Waldo Emerson – Spiritual Laws
Let the great soul incarnated in some woman’s form, poor and sad and single, in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service and sweep chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent day-beams cannot be muffled or hid, but to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions, the top and radiance of human life, and all people will get mops and brooms; until, lo, suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form, and done some other deed and that is now the flower and head of all living nature.