Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming...
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming...
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming...
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming...
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William Blake, the great English poet and painter, was an atheist. He held that all men were equal and that there is no such thing as evil in the world. This must have been hard for him to believe when he read in the newspaper of a terrible murder of a woman in his home town. He seems to have thought it would be better not to hear of it and so he did not read it at all. Instead, he saw the story in his dreams and interpreted them as a message from heaven: “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

Source: Emerson In His Journals

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