Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.


Representative Men: Top Biography Collections (ed. 2015)


A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.