... spirit that ever too flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."" ("Self-Reliance-). Emerson related misfits with pure and wise spirits, perhaps they are just misunderstood'. Henry Wadsworth Thoreau, author of "Civil Disobedience- and Walden, integrated idealism with both. From "Civil Disobedience- "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government."" In an exemplar society, a better government ... death) contrasts that of Transcendentalism. "So shalt thou rest, and what if thou withdraw/in silence from the living, and no friend/take note of thy departure?-. From "Th...

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