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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement and became the most influential American intellectual of the nineteenth century. His essays — particularly 'Self-Reliance,' 'Nature,' and 'The Over-Soul' — articulated a philosophy of radical individualism, spiritual self-sufficiency, and the divinity of nature …

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."